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Thanks for the lecture on the theory of crosswinds. Do you know of any airline applying stronger crosswind limits than the manufacturers' suggested limits?
The original poster asked for a guide to calculate the crosswind while on final approach and the replies have given a rough way to do so. My post was to suggest that crosswind calculations be used as a 'ball-park figure' only. Perhaps you could say as to what stage on the approach would you go-around, if your 'ball-park figure' exceeds the company's maximum? In my experience the maximum crosswind limit was never without moderate, even severe turbulence and I have twice gone around because of that, rather than the actual wind strength itself. Your observation that a surprising number of pilots only concentrate on the wind strength, is probably because with that strength of wind, we are concentrating on completing the landing safely and have little capacity to consider the other factors that you have stated.