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To: cripplecreek

It looked like a student pilot on their first crosswind training flight


14 posted on 03/03/2008 9:00:03 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

You guys don’t understand, it’s not up to the pilot, the tower makes the call, this pilot does deserve a medal. I had a landing like this once (we landed) and people on the plane were crying, it’s very scary but in the end the tower makes the call, and they often make very bad calls.


19 posted on 03/03/2008 9:02:32 AM PST by Scythian
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To: Conspiracy Guy

A friend of mine is an airline pilot and tells me that those crosswind landings are an instictive thing but only a fool or a pilot without options will attempt a landing in a heavy crosswind like that.


34 posted on 03/03/2008 9:11:30 AM PST by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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