Track

[Bill Glaze]

The 727 only had a note in the Flight Manual:  "Maximum demonstrated 
cross wind landing 29 knots." 
But, as a friend of mine once said:  "It's an advisory until you slide 
off the runway.  Then it becomes a Limitation."  (Which, BTW, is 
Inviolate.)  True.

Bill Glaze

Don Ramsey wrote:

> That's heavy duty crosswind gear.  The operation manuals (747,767, 
> 777) says it's OK but I always thought it better to use the cross 
> control method to put the nose down the runway.
>  
> Don
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Earl Haury <mailto:ehaury at houston.rr.com>
>     To: Discussion List, NSRCA <mailto:discussion at nsrca.org>
>     Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:21 PM
>     Subject: Track
>
>     Here's a link to video of some Boeing heavy jets maintaining track
>     in a cross-wind.
>      
>     http://www.linhadafrente.net/bin/Pousos.wmv
>      
>     Earl
>
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