Straight down the runway...
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10 seconds on Google or checking the online AIP entry reveals it's Benbecula... which is [i]near[/] to the Isle of Skye which is near the surely if you can use PPRuNe you can do that!?
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Last Saturday, the wind at Blackpool was something like 27040G58. I was tucked up in my nice cosy office, not having dared even opened the hangar doors.
We heard the RyanAir flight from Dublin land - a little surprising, given the wind. So we switched on the scanner to listen to him heading back to Ireland.
"RyanAir 925, cleared for take-off, runway 28, the wind now 270 at 45, maximum 60 knots. It's been varying a bit, but the direction hasn't been less than 260"
"Ah, straight down the runway then - perfect! Cleared for take-off, RyanAir 925." And off he went.....
Next day, an ex-instructor at my school, who happens to now fly for RyanAir, was visiting, so I asked him about wind limits if the wind was straight down the runway. Apparently they don't have any - the crosswind limit is 35kt, but as long as it's within that limit they don't have any other limits on wind.
Glad I wasn't on that flight, though, I have to admit.
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We heard the RyanAir flight from Dublin land - a little surprising, given the wind. So we switched on the scanner to listen to him heading back to Ireland.
"RyanAir 925, cleared for take-off, runway 28, the wind now 270 at 45, maximum 60 knots. It's been varying a bit, but the direction hasn't been less than 260"
"Ah, straight down the runway then - perfect! Cleared for take-off, RyanAir 925." And off he went.....
Next day, an ex-instructor at my school, who happens to now fly for RyanAir, was visiting, so I asked him about wind limits if the wind was straight down the runway. Apparently they don't have any - the crosswind limit is 35kt, but as long as it's within that limit they don't have any other limits on wind.
Glad I wasn't on that flight, though, I have to admit.FFF
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Didn't a citation (or similar) go out of blackpool that morning as well (Whats the limit for those?) - I was in Morissons carpark chasing after a run-away trolly in that wind !
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I was a passenger in a 737 going into Halifax Nova Scotia about ten years ago on a truely horrible stormy night. The airplane had so much crab on I could see both sets of runway lights out the row 6 window when we were lined up on final
The guy driving did a beautiful job on the landing the only problem was we could not go to a jetway becuase the wind was so strong the jetway would not move, so they towed the airplane into the lee of the hangar and used the on board stairs. As we got up my seatmater said Oh Thank God we are safe now. I said we are about to confront the most dangerous part of this flight, The taxi ride to town ! I will never forget the drive in as there was at least 3 instances where I was sure we were going to die 
The guy driving did a beautiful job on the landing the only problem was we could not go to a jetway becuase the wind was so strong the jetway would not move, so they towed the airplane into the lee of the hangar and used the on board stairs. As we got up my seatmater said Oh Thank God we are safe now. I said we are about to confront the most dangerous part of this flight, The taxi ride to town ! I will never forget the drive in as there was at least 3 instances where I was sure we were going to die
