[PieterCasparzen]

Ok, here it is. Where do you live in NY ?

I’m in North Jersey. There are strong westerlies.

There is nothing in the Newark traffic pattern that I see when they land normally (North or South).

They’ve undoubtedly switched to landing all traffic to the West on the crosswind runway at Newark.

[PieterCasparzen]

They’ve undoubtedly switched to landing all traffic to the West on the crosswind runway at Newark.

Makes me smirk thinking about that. I've been on normal-sized commercial jets that landed on that runway a couple times.

For some of the larger planes, that is one short runway.

And man do they hit the breaks if they touched down a little long. A lot of passengers get a little disconcerted with that hard breaking. IMHO, landing long is not "by the book", and if a pilot is lazy about that, then has to land on a short runway some day, they're setting themselves up for problems.