Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2025

The main landing gear featured a swiveling trailing link design to allow landings in a crab, a simple version of the crosswind crab system in the mighty B-52 Stratofortress. In a crosswind, you fly an Ercoupe down the runway with whatever crab angle you need to track the centerline and let the gear figure it out upon touchdown.

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Rudder Tail Crosswind Airplanes 105

Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

Though wind is reported using such simple numbers like 270@15G20, I’ve come to believe that 20 knots here is not always the same as 20 knots there. I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. Then came the landing in 20 knots in the Hill Country of Texas, west of Austin.

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Knot Crosswind Rudder Turbulence 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The RNAV approach to the 7,000-foot Runway 31 that snakes around from the Runway 4 extended centerline, loops past Citi Field, and rolls out on a tight-in final approach. I mentioned how rolling through the intersection on Runway 4 is allowed but frowned upon, effectively making the runway shorter if you want to follow custom.

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Runway Approach Knot Jet 66

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Find the crosswind component for Runway 36 if the reported wind direction is 320 at 12 knots. knots Correct! Calculate the planned groundspeed if the winds aloft are forecast to be from 250 at 15 knots flying a true course of 130 with a true airspeed of 112 knots. knots Correct!

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Flight Plan True Airspeed Flight Computer Groundspeed 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 19, 2025

Pilots use METARs for flight safety, runway selection, and weather planning. The wind is from the south at 8 knots. The KT indicates that the scale used is knots (an abbreviated term for nautical miles per hour ). Ideally, they try to land into a headwind, may tolerate crosswinds , and try to avoid significant tailwinds.

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Weather Altimeter Runway NOTAMs 84

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Crosswind Landings : Learning no-flap crosswind landings can help improve aircraft control in high-wind conditions. This is important because crosswinds can make it difficult to control the aircraft at low speeds, so a no-flaps landing can teach you how to land with a higher approach speed. More aggressive energy management.

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Pilot Drag Descent Approach 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. As at higher altitudes, the vortex movement near the ground is affected by crosswinds. After one aircraft lands, the tailwind pushes the vortices forward into the runways touchdown zone. Crosswinds can push the downwind vortex into your approach path.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

AV Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Two runways remain closed but operations have resumed at Toronto Pearson International Airport after a Delta Connection CRJ 900 crashed, flipped and broke apart on landing, injuring 18 of the 80 people onboard. There were no fatalities among the 76 passengers and four crew members but a child and two adults had serious injuries.

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Crosswind Runway Knot Tail 98

Ask Captain Lim

DECEMBER 11, 2024

An Airbus A350 in a strong crosswind with nose pointing away How do pilots handle their planes in strong crosswinds? Landing in strong crosswinds is among the most challenging tasks for pilots, requiring precise techniques to ensure the aircraft touches down safely. Some airlines impose a lower limitation.

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Crosswind Pilot Final Approach Approach 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. After I turned off the runway, I saw the traffic… a crop duster. What the…?

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 74

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

We started up the engine, got the weather, asked the tower for our instrument flight plan, and began to taxi from the T-hangars on the east side of the field down the familiar route of “Hotel, Echo” to runway 18 right for a departure to the north with a turn to the east. Destin Tower told me to expect a right base for a landing on Runway 12.

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Aileron Crosswind Knot Runway 98

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is not an instrument procedure, but rather a way to enter the traffic pattern when approaching from the opposite side of the runway. ” What about the old fashioned midfield crosswind, which many of us grew up flying? In other words, how you get to the runway is mostly a matter of manners , not regulations.

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Crosswind Airplanes AGL Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In order to be flown by a sport pilot, the resulting airplane must still meet the current regulations—1,320 pounds maximum gross weight, 120 knots max cruise speed, for example—but how it gets there is up to the builder. Airplanes in the LSA category have some performance limitations, so the RV-12 gets right to the 120-knot max cruise figure.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 98

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

If utilizing Runway 17 with left traffic, the crosswind turn will be heading 080, downwind 350, base 260, etc. Don’t accept the excuses of “I can’t fly if I can’t see the runway,” or “I can’t feel the airplane.” It might be no greater than 6 knots with gusts to 10 mph. It’s an ATD.

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Crosswind Airplanes VOR Runway 105

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2025

As we walked from the wharf to breakfast, I saw that peak wind gusts were tickling the 40-knot mark. Every reference to a crosswinds in the operators manual are as follows: Hydraulic disc brakes and a steerable nosewheel aid in positive directional control during taxiing and crosswind landings.

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Crosswind Wind Shear Knot Airplanes 93

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

The small aileron “tabs” were not doing a great job in crosswind ability. Left downwind on a blustery day with live weather actually shows a virga burst over the field, with local winds gusting 36 knots, making for some extreme conditions in such a tight canyon. Also visible was green grass and flowering trees. This was in XP12.

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Crosswind Weather Knot Aileron 105

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off. “Coming back around, I’m usually at about 60 knots. You just make one great big U-turn, that way you can kind of watch the runway the whole time. It is a terrible airplane for crosswinds. ” Ed Storos and His Bulldog.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Air Facts

MAY 6, 2024

As I listened in to the radio calls, I heard “Cessna November 50788 entering downwind for a full stop on runway 17” and “Twin Cessna November 61237 on final to runway 17”. We were cruising at about the same speed the Cessna could manage which was 105 knots. Since I could see the runway was clear, we went ahead and landed.

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Runway Crosswind Airplanes Knot 98

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Over the last three years, The Bear has expressed great interest in visiting Alton Bay, the only FAA-authorized ice runway in the continental United States. A very brief 2022 season for the ice runway eliminated opportunities to return that year. I pointed to the ice runway as we cleared terrain hiding it. There it is!"

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 89

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

You can only begin improving the touchdown if you’ve mastered positioning your aircraft above the runway threshold correctly. Flying at 60 knots? For example, if you fly a high-wing aircraft such as a Cessna 172, you can use the point where the runway cuts the wing strut as a reference. Two key aspects make good approaches.

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Descent Weight-Shift-Control Crosswind Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. The windsock promised that getting the little yellow bird into the air would be a white-knuckle affair.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Not only must you fly unnervingly slow, but you also have to pick a spot on the runway and hit it. It’s a runway that is too short for a normal takeoff or landing but still usable with certain precautions. This allows them to safely operate into and out of these tight runways. You’re not alone.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Approach Descent 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But landing it safely on the runway is a skill. If there is a crosswind at the airport, you should mention this in your brief. Discuss your nominated crosswind technique. Explain what aircraft input you will require to land the aircraft in the crosswind. For example, the crosswind is from left to right.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Final Approach 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This 172 had a flap extension speed of 85 knots, and my old Cessna 172’s limit was 100 mph, or 87 knots. There was a nice crosswind, and I demonstrated landing on a concrete expansion joint, offset from the runway centerline. Then off to the other runway for a full stop.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 80

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The RNAV approach to the 7,000-foot Runway 31 that snakes around from the Runway 4 extended centerline, loops past Citi Field, and rolls out on a tight-in final approach. I mentioned how rolling through the intersection on Runway 4 is allowed but frowned upon, effectively making the runway shorter if you want to follow custom.

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Runway Approach Knot Jet 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 12, 2024

“Clermont County Traffic, Skyhawk 2135 Sierra is departing runway 22, Clermont.” Full throttle, airspeed is alive, rotation at 55 knots and climb out at 74 knots. I turn crosswind, then downwind, and base. Well, here goes nothing. I did it!

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Knot Airplanes Crosswind Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In order to be flown by a sport pilot, the resulting airplane must still meet the current regulations—1,320 pounds maximum gross weight, 120 knots max cruise speed, for example—but how it gets there is up to the builder. Airplanes in the LSA category have some performance limitations, so the RV-12 gets right to the 120-knot max cruise figure.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 96

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

A bounced landing is a condition where the aircraft lands on the runway, but instead of rolling on the surface after touchdown, it rebounds/bounces off the ground. This can happen for several reasons: Landing Too Fast At high speeds, your aircraft may be unable to slow down enough before touching down on the runway.

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Descent Runway Rudder Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.

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Runway Wind Shear Crosswind Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.

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Runway Wind Shear Crosswind Airplanes 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

Unlike paved runways, every soft landing surface is different. Obstructions: Ensure the runway is clear of obstacles, from stones to animals. You can walk down the length of the runway. If the runway is too wet, it might be temporarily closed. They’re happy to tell you the status of the airport and runways.

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NOTAMs Runway Approach Descent 52

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Birr Airfield has just one runway, a grass strip of 570 metres (1,870 feet) running north-south. Surface Wind South-west 7-12 knots (kt). The runway was firm, although he noticed that his shoes were wet after the inspection. The pilot applied some aileron to compensate for the crosswind and then applied full power.

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Runway Pilot Knot Weather 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. After I turned off the runway, I saw the traffic… a crop duster. What the…?

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

For example, if you’re holding at 100 knots and have a 10-knot tailwind on the outbound leg, the outbound leg should be shorter than one minute because you’ll have a headwind on the inbound leg. You are looking for the RNAV approach into runway 17R. If there is a left crosswind, your heading will be less than 174.

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VOR Pilot Crosswind Approach 52

AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Winds over 15 knots are indicated by flashing yellow lights. I chose the default setting of 15 knots because the max demonstrated crosswind component of our Cherokee Six is 17 knots. I chose the default setting of 15 knots because the max demonstrated crosswind component of our Cherokee Six is 17 knots.

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Weather Ceiling Knot Visual Flight Rules 52

AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Winds were from 290 degrees at 15 knots, gusting to 21 knots. Backing up in the pattern, the crosswind, downwind and base legs (excluding the turns) saw less than one percent of the stalls.

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Final Approach Airplanes Drag Crosswind 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As I passed Kelley's Island, wind streaks in the water out of the southwest indicated a wind of six to eight knots, exactly as forecast. Closer to South Bass Island, the Put-In-Bay Airport (runways 3-21) appeared along the southeastern shore. Moments before turning final for runway 21 at Put-In-Bay. This airport is a mere 1.4

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Runway Approach Knot Drag 82