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To: patton
Airlines have an operations spec which should cover stuff like this; certainly for instrument approaches, airlines may not attempt the approach is wx is below minimums (part 91 GA can have at it, though). I can't imagine Xwind limitations wouldn't be set forth in the op spec, but they do differ from carrier to carrier.

Southwest, for example, allowed pilots to calculate runway requirements for landing with spoilers. One snowy night in chicago, a boy died because of this unique and ill-advised rule.

100 posted on 03/03/2008 10:26:47 AM PST by nj_pilot
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To: nj_pilot

I don’t think, from watching the video, that it was cross wind.

Looks like gusts to me.

Or dislexia - having a hypoxia-dislexia attack in an xwind can be lethal.


106 posted on 03/03/2008 10:32:50 AM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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