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Old 4th Jan 2007, 16:21
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Landed a few times in 35-40 kts - pretty much straight down the rwy, I hasten to add, however ! Actually, the taxiing is the interesting part in this kind of wx

Where I learned to fly and where I fly now, quite a bit of wind is pretty much the norm. I find it sad and not very productive, that FTOs don't make use of a benign x-wind situation to teach their students how to handle the a/c. In the real world, you will land in x-wind and it's better to be trained for that than doing the trainig on your, errr, first x-wind landing as PIC.

In any case, all POH's I've ever seen carry a note underneath the 'Max demonstrated crosswind' saying something to the effect 'the above value does not constitute a limitation'.

PS: I have, to agree with some others here that probably the best x-wind a/c I've ever flown is the Robin. Amazing what this thing can handle !
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