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Old 14th May 2013, 09:15
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Old Smokey
 
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mcdhu,

AI haven't come up with ANY crosswind limits (excepting Auto-Land considerations) for any A320. There's a whole bunch of maximum DEMONSTRATED crosswinds encountered, but thus far the only actual limits stated are in company SOPs. Our mob couldn't help themselves, and imposed a new crosswind consideration for the aircraft.

A small difference performance wise is that Vmcg is increased by 1 Kt (due to greater wing span), impacting on short field RTOWs which are Vmc limited, but 2nd segment limited operations allow for improved RTOWs.

It's all been worthwhile, but no retro-fitting seems to be in order.
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