What's the most wind you've ever landed in?

flynbutcher · Post by **flynbutcher** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:32 am

Personally I landed in 62 kts(48gusting62) on the east coast. Pretty challenging but not too rough.

KAG · Post by **KAG** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:55 am

55G65 in lethbridge AB. Almost down the pipe so it was a piece of cake. The TO was pretty funny, Inow have an idea what it must feel like to fly the otter.

Cheers.

FREEFALL · Post by **FREEFALL** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:45 am

Saw a metro take a 35G45kt tailwind due to restrictions from a birddog working a fire in close proximity to the airport.

Airtids · Post by **Airtids** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:51 am

Similar to KAG, only in Pincher Creek. When we drove the club car into town, we were doing 110 KPH down the road (downwind) and i stuck my hand out the window it was like we were standing still. Really bizarre. That's why they call that place the a$$hole of the Rocky Mountains.

flynbutcher · Post by **flynbutcher** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:07 am

A 45 kt headwind - no problem
A 45 kt tailwind is just crazy and stupid

KAG · Post by **KAG** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:35 am

45 KTS in a tube?!?!? holy sh!t, that is retarded. We'll do 35 KTS in a King Air and it does a good job of it, but the tube has really small ailerons...I would think that would have been some pucker factor 10 in that cockpit.

Cheers.

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:25 am

There is a big difference between straight into wind and 90 degrees x/ wind.

The most difficult that I did was 50 knots 90 degrees in a blowing snow condition in Resolute bay....in a DC3. ( 1971 )

Cat

snaproll20 · Post by **snaproll20** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:36 am

Yeah, Cat, I think I saw you do that one. (I am still in the "duck" position.)
Why did you not land ACROSS the strip like the rest of us?

ZLIN 142C · Post by **ZLIN 142C** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:57 am

Personally, 35G40 at Lethbridge. At my current level of expertise, that's manageable but not comfortable. Especially if it's off runway heading to any great extent.

I've been told that back during the war some BCATP trainees at Fort Macleod came up with what they called the "Fort Macleod Circuit" - take off in high wind, climb to circuit height on runway heading, throttle back to just above the stall and allow the wind to push you backwards relative to the runway, then throttle up, drop the nose, and land.

You could do that at YQL some days. . .

By the way, that's a great avatar, Cat.

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:09 pm

Head wind...never more than 15
Tail wind...never more than 3
Cross wind.....never more than 5
HONEST!!

Northern Flyer · Post by **Northern Flyer** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:45 pm

Doc,

you obviously don't fly for a living, so I would guess you are flying kites, or RC aircraft.

KAG · Post by **KAG** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:50 pm

opps....I reread the post about the Tube and I thought it was a 45 KT Xwind...but the tailwind is even worse!!!!

twotterflyer · Post by **twotterflyer** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:53 pm

First year on the twinotter, winds were down the pipe howling at about 65kts little bit if ice on the runway. We landed with a full load of cargo and parked on the lee side of a small cliff where there was next to no wind. Unloaded then taxied out on the runway, as soon as the tail caught the wind it weathercocked and we had to hold it there in reverse with no flaps. When we were ready I set 20 flaps while the Capt. applied power. We rolled about 5 feet and by the end of the 1000 foot rwy we were at 2500 feet!

I'm still flying the twinotter and still amazed at what the thing can do!!!

flynbutcher · Post by **flynbutcher** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:01 pm

I heard of a twotter taking off from a taxiway that runs perpendicular to the runway in 50 kt winds. The winds were 90 degrees off the runway so they informed the FSS that they would do a discretionary T/O. They took off on a 500 ft taxiway into the wind.

jetpilot · Post by **jetpilot** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:13 pm

By Far the hardest i have chance to try is ! Hong Kong (VHHH) in the storm season, 45G to 60 all the time from 70 to 90 degree, i land few time on the landing with full deflection of aileron in the wind the aircraft have lifted from the ground

we talk about a B727-200 here!

second i put macau (VMMC) runway 16 LOC , 90 turn at 1000 Feet for this aproach,like the old Hong Kong, the problem is with a 45 or 50 kts of X wind! very good to get big balls! very dangerous place to get in!

Wind all depend on what aircatft you are flying! a B737 is very good in the wind , A B727 not very good but ok! a DC10 or MD11 will kick you in the arsss at the firt mistake you make he is the hardest jet to land with X-wind!

just my 2 cents

Jet

slowstream · Post by **slowstream** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:18 pm

85 Kts in CYEG last fall! The winds were so strong that Tower was unable to give a reading.

C-150Pilot · Post by **C-150Pilot** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:43 pm

where is the 10 to 15 knot haha

flynbutcher · Post by **flynbutcher** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:46 pm

I would try to add it but I would just mess things up. Probably, by the looks of things, I should have had added 85+ too.

peeelot · Post by **peeelot** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:52 pm

23kts at 90 with a 172 I know it's not that much but it made me work for it.

ODA · Post by **ODA** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:42 pm

T/O going across a 100 foot wide runway in 40 to 50 knots in an empty twin otter. Didn't even use half of the 100 feet.

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:32 pm

55G68 straight down R29 in YYT with the F-27. Real bitch to taxi in in the blowing snow afterward.

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:43 pm

For take off the highest wind I ever seen was 72 knots given to me by the FSS operator in Port Harrison Quebec when a line squall with snow was bearing down on us.

It was in one of Austin Airways PBY's in 1972 we had drifted backwards from a small island where we had unloaded freight and passengers into freighter canoes.

With that high a wind we just went from the power we were using to sail backward to take off power and it just popped into the air hardly moving foward in the water. Once airborne we just turned toward Great Whale River and flew away from the storm.

Cat

July · Post by **July** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:50 pm

And I thought the winds in YBX where strong today...45G58

TTail · Post by **TTail** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:02 pm

Northern Flyer wrote:Doc,

you obviously don't fly for a living, so I would guess you are flying kites, or RC aircraft.

Maybe he doesn't fly for a living. Maybe he flies for fun. Did you think of that?

LH · Post by LH » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:32 pm

Pangnirtung, Nunuvut - 85kts "down the tube" - "Twin Hotter" 100 Series - stayed the night. Aircraft lashed, weighted, chocked, tied, etc., etc because we were warned about the high winds at this stupid place. First time in there. Winds at weather station that night "pegged" on the guage at 125MPH (that's as high as the guage read). Next morning aircraft was still there in one piece........about 75' farther back from where we had parked it.....and weather-cocked 90 degrees. Someone tells you about the high winds at a place called Pangnirtung......believe them buddy. They don't have wire-rope cables from the corner of the buildings and anchored to rocks for nothing.......so this dummie found out....afterwards.

Cat ----- you gotta see those Twin Otter helicopters take-off on the runways width-wise in Resolute. Unless they changed the width, that's only about 125'. You don't figure your "rock wagon" could do that eh?

Sorry Cat......I'll take back that "rock wagon" slur......couldn't resist...you understand?

What's the most wind you've ever landed in?

What's the highest wind you've ever landed in?

What's the most wind you've ever landed in?

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