[NSRCA-discussion] Landing Direction

[Jerry Stebbins]

Mark, interesting, and very astute observation. Now you do not need to guess 
why it was initiated!!! The reasons/rationale stated were only developed to 
sell it. Same thing happened once before--"no scores for Takeoff and 
Landings".It now has gone full circle and the purported rationale has 
finally been overcome by common sense and "facts".
Jerry
Jerry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Atwood" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Landing Direction


>I think my only annoyance with all of this is number of times I have 
>watched
> pilots purposely take off down wind in a "mild" wind because it allowed 
> them
> to fly their preferred direction only to cry "SAFETY" when the wind picked
> up and suddenly their choice of direction isn't so desirable.
>
> I don't think anyone questions a major wind shift during a flight should 
> be
> allowed some variance in making a landing.  But let's face it...those 
> times
> are few and far between. The real issue is the quartering cross wind 
> that's
> shifting slightly from upwind to downwind, where the pilot picks his
> preference for take off and his pattern, rather than thinking about the
> landing.
>
> -M
>
> On 4/6/07 2:39 PM, "Del K. Rykert" <drykert2 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> As a pilot I always feel the ultimate decision rests with the pilot.  I
>> would ask permission to land the opposite way but if not given and felt 
>> it
>> was a safety issue to land downwind I would take the zero and land the
>> reverse direction. Smarter to be safe and go home with an intact airplane
>> then to land and force a mishap. Having said that, it also forces greater
>> responsibility on the pilot to make sure he isn't conflicting with 
>> opposing
>> traffic if he so chooses to land into the wind and causes a mishap by
>> reversing direction. So the decision is not to be taken lightly.
>>
>>     Del
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <randy9004 at comcast.net>
>> To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Landing Direction
>>
>>
>>> Does the pilot/caller get to decide if the wind has changed directions?
>>> Does a judge need to agree?
>>>
>>> Randy
>>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: "Don Ramsey" <donramsey at gmail.com>
>>>> To those who read my March Kfactor article, I seem to have mistated the
>>>> intent
>>>> of the new landing direction rule.  After re-reading the intent of the
>>>> rule, it
>>>> seems the rule was put in to allow a change of landing direction only 
>>>> for
>>>> a wind
>>>> change.  This is implied in the new rule.  The landing direction should
>>>> always
>>>> be in the direciton of takeoff unless the wind changes to a direction
>>>> that would
>>>> cause a downwind landing.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to all who brought this to my attention.
>>>> Don
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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