Stan Prevost wrote:

Why, in aviation-speak, do we so frequently refer to wind in the plural?

Stan, just curious


Could it be a leftover from before the Age of Exploration when the charts of
the time showed the several "winds" blwoing from each direction?

West wind, North wind, Tramontanas (in the med) etc.?

--
Saville

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