Wind Phrases

Learn the phrases and the example sentences, make your own ones. They will prove handy and useful both during the exam and everyday airmen’s situations.

• Intensive precipitation and severe wind are forecast. Bear in mind that ‘forecast’ an irregular verb: ‘forecast-forecast-forecast’ . Using the form’ forecasted’ is a frequent mistake which lowers your grade in structure category of ICAO assessment.
• Tail wind made the flight home very relaxing. Tail wind and head wind.
• Let’s wait until the wind drops before departing.
• The wind suddenly changed and began blowing from the south.
• Unfavorable wind conditions are forecast for tomorrow morning. Wind + noun: wind direction, wind power, wind speed, wind velocity: Sudden changes in wind velocity may cause that the aircraft is unable to maintain the altitude.
• Several aircraft reported strong gusts of crosswind on the short final to the RWY 09L.
• Windshear (or ‘wind shear’) can be extremely dangerous to aircraft, particularly during the takeoff and landing stages of flight.
• Strong and unexpected gusts of cross wind made the landing bumpy.
• In order to maintain desired course during the flight, it is necessary for an aircraft to continuously compensate for both wind direction and wind speed.

More examples

• One of the main causes of light aircraft accidents is loss of directional control during takeoff and landing in windy conditions (pilots institute).
• There are two methods of executing the landing in crosswind conditions. Both require that you fly the final approach with a crab into the wind to maintain centerline alignment (aopa).
• Strong surface winds can throw pilots an unexpected curve ball if they’ve planned a flight to a favorite destination and find the conditions at the arrival airport exceed the capabilities of their airplane, themselves or both (flyingmag).
• There is no question that tailwheel airplanes are a bigger handful in the wind (aopa).