Originally Posted by
albatross
Question: Why “always into to the wind?
Lots of the times a crosswind approach and landing is a better choice both on and offshore. Sometimes required onshore in the case of ATC wanting you to approach and land on a runway that is crosswind.
Just my opinion.
Absolutely. Sometimes an out of wind approach, even by only 10 or 20° allows for a far better go around track should you suffer an eng fail late on in the approach.
And not always 50’ above helideck either. EC175 PC2DLE CP is 40’, which I
think was the case on Puma as well.