HOW TO: Measure wind speed during flight

[msinger]

 

[KAOS Imagery]

Before a mission, I fly up to my working altitude and hover. Switch to Atti mode for a short while and see the direction and speed that the AC starts to move in. From that I can easily determine wind direction and speed. Back to GPS and fly the mission knowing that info.

 

[Jayfdee]

I get the high wind warning on virtually every flight, I ignore it, and use my own judgement. Flying in ATTI is a good way of checking wind speed. The video shows a Mavic, which to my knowledge can not be switched to ATTI, if you landed every time you got a wind warning, you would not fly very much.

 

[captainchris]

They could have put wind speed sensor in it or al least some kind of information in the app, only the warning is a little bit strange because most of us flying the ac and ignore the warning

 

[Loz]

They could have put wind speed sensor in it or al least some kind of information in the app, only the warning is a little bit strange because most of us flying the ac and ignore the warning

There is no meaningful and economic way of measuring wind speed else they would have - even manned aircraft use air speed not wind speed. They can estimate wind speed effect by how much the props need to work - which they do - it’s the wind warning we see, not perfect but pretty clever.