Originally Posted by
tlglenn
The runway choice is typically based on the wind. Headwinds are preferred. You can view the weather data for Seattle here:
http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KSEA/weather which will give you observations and a forecast.
If you look here:
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KSEA you can find a phone number for the ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service) in the communications section which should give you the runways in use, but it typically changes each hour.
Interesting. I am a newbie at reading the information on the airnav site. Any tips on how to decipher?
Originally Posted by
UnitedFlyGuy
Hard or even impossible to be able to tell. You COULD use historical weather patterns and make an educated guess but weather reports are ever changing and you'll either be on the right side or you won't.
That was what I was thinking, but I was hoping that things might be more planned.. or at least conditionally planned: For example, if take off heads north, then it'll fly to the right of Mt. Rainier... if south, then to the left.
Originally Posted by
bnarayan1511
If you're flying with me, just make sure you always select the side opposite from the side I'm sitting in and you're gold!
True story :/
