Alf: Whilst I appreciate your viewpoint with your "air safety perspective" hat on - even you must acknowledge the possibility/probability that given the experience level of the captain that he would have experienced more crosswind approaches, albeit PNF as well as PF, than the co-pilot. There is a good reason why many airlines impose lower crosswind handling limits on their F/O`s. The fact that LH appear not to do this is a matter between them and their authority. The days when BOAC used to fly all their command trainees up to Iceland to experience actual large crosswind landings are gone and no matter how good the fidelity of the modern simulators may be, they do not truely represent the real life variations that can be encountered. I can only repeat my view that I am still completely baffled as to why the captain could have thought that it was even a good idea to have the F/O handling the landing. Please explain how his `duty of care` was exercised.