five-alive said:Except for crosswind components (which are aircraft limitiations) do you guys at your airlines have any maximum wind guidelines for takeoff and landing and what are they?
At my pevious employer it was 50kts sustained surface wind.
A long time ago, with no maximum in the specs, I recall operating at MDW with 80kts gusts to 90kts. It was right out of the south and there was a short 18/36 still available then. We used it. This was in a DC-3 in about 1960. Taxiing was the challenge! It took both of us to control the controls.
Back in the USAF, about 1957, I departed either Nagoya or Osaka, Japan (the airports were almost identical) just before a typhoon. Winds had gotten up to about 90kts but right down the runway. This in a C-119.
Wind is what makes 'em fly after all.
DC