40 kt across !
On my last sector as an FO the captain let me land the aircraft (738) with 40 kt at 90 degrees to the runway.
The guy's attitude was that next time I was faced with the situation I would have no one to help me if I was getting it wrong.
The most chalanging approach that I have flown was into MAN a few months back , it was a quatering croswind 20 gusting 48kt with a lot of turbulance a number of guys went around and diverted but with the condtitons changing by the second I think that I might have got lucky with the weather and would not seek to question any one who diverted that day.
However I don't think that my skills as a pilot are anything other than average but my hand flying skills are probably a bit sharper than most because I fly a lot of light aircraft and this keeps me in practice, I feel that with the same amount of practice most pilots would be equaly happy to hand fly aircraft to the flight manual limmits if it was wise to do so under the prevailing conditions.
Last edited by A and C; 24th Aug 2005 at 06:45.