WIND INDICATORS
Standard Windsocks For Aerodromes A development in New Zealand avia. tion that is of considerable importance to pilots is the instruction issu'ed to airports by the Director of Civil A>iation that in future the windsocks at landing-fields shall be standardised. Plans for the new designs of wind indicator were reeeived last night at the meeting of the Napier Airport Board. The sock is to be of durable cloth, marked in alternate hoops of yellow and black. It was explained by Mr Arnold Wright that a variation in the weight of wind socks was of considerable danger to pilots. The aceurate gauging of the strength of tlie wind was of vital importance in landing, and if a ,pilot was taught to fly on an aerodrome equipped with a light indicator it miglit appear on visiting another field equipped with a heavier one that the wind was much weaker than actually was the case. The move for the standardisation of the indicators was a very wise one. " , Messrs A. Wright and E. E. Carrington were appointed to deal with the matter of the indicator for Napier.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 112, 28 May 1937, Page 6
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