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Old 13th Aug 2012, 17:08
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cosmo kramer
 
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You can always find examples that are no-brainers. Even if indeed the wind was calm, if you have 27 knots tailwind at 150 feet, the reason to go around would be the 27 windsheer.

I am not going around though, because the ND/FMC says 15 knots tailwind at 150 feet (for a 10 knots limited aircraft), assuming tower tailwind was reported as within limit.

Myself:
...and of course you checked your landing performance before hand if limited to check your margin.
But I would have bumped my landing speed 5 knots for performance calculations if the runway length was limited.

That way I would not go over the end.
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