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Managing the wind

Air Facts

I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. It felt like pushing it for that airplane, but checkrides are so hard to schedule I went. I finally learned to time the change of rudder direction better, straight as the nose wheel touches the ground, then as needed to stay upwind.