clanger32 No not you alone, I used your quote to show that it was a student driven decision to remove the restriction - a limitation which I agree was too low to be practical but imposed in an effort to mitigate the number of landing incidents that had occured over a short period of time (and I'm not suggesting that crosswind was the cause but it may have been part of the problem). Your observations concerning crosswind technique and the teaching of are accurate and the crosswind limit should indeed be determined by the instructor based on
actual ability;
demomonkey makes a good point - the predominant south-westerly flow at GYR can provide you with a healthy crosswind on final for 21 but not as consistently strong as you would get at somewhere like Kidlington, for example.
PRT2010 If you consider quality, safety and standard of training as a meaningful measurement of value for money then perhaps we're not so much off topic after all. A number of posters on this thread are former students but I think it's important to note that they were not all training at the same time - the earlier statement that the BA056 incident F/O was a graduate of Oxford Air Training School is the sort of thing sales and marketing delight in and might use to confirm the quality of the product to prospective customers (in point of fact I doubt they actually would) but, and no disrespect to current of former students of the company intended, this
product has changed considerably over the past twenty years - the training package in almost every respect is not really comparable. Your comments and advice are sensible though and I think prospective and current students should note well your point regarding the "cream of the crop".
Adios The ATCA hangar is next to the runway - perhaps you should have had a look in there
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