The magic words being, beardy, "when on autoland". As someone has already pointed out - lots of non precision approaches are the order of the day at JFK, even at the best of times without the current 31 runway works.
Have to agree with Wiley's comment: kicking a big aeroplane straight in the flare isn't conducive to maintaining a stabilised approach. There are lots of videos out there of things going very, very pear shaped when people get it wrong or in gusty conditions, when the crosswind you've planned for either suddenly isn't there or is just as suddenly is quite a bit more than you planned for.
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