What is the strongest wind you have flown in?

[PureMuscle]

During your aviation career what is some of the strongest winds either in flight or during landing that you have experienced?

 

[Flywrite]

Gusting to 46 with a hurricane rolling in back in '99 is the strongest I've landed in. Not fun, and I probably wouldnt do it again.


Most I've seen in flight was about 120 at FL240 in a Dash 8. Direct tailwind too, and smooth as silk.

 

[GravityHater]

CA insisted the night before he was going to have the sauerkraut. Then he gets that skanky German beer plus a few brats...

 

[semperfido]

1. 45k-keflavik; on the nose
2. about 150k in core of JS

 

[Flechas]

Landed with about 40 kts 2 days ago in TYS (Left x-wind, not direct though). About 150 on the nose in the 30s.

 

[88_MALIBU]

42 kt gusts on touchdown one summer in a Cherokee.

 

[Ill Mitch]

Landing - 40 direct x-wind in a Citabria, 45 on the nose in a T-6.

Flight - 100 or so in a Caravan...thankfully it was a tailwind.

 

[PureMuscle]

A lot of you have seen 40+kt crosswind. Whether it's direct or not, that's still a lot.

 

[ToiletDuck]

35kts

 

[M. St. Lawrence]

75kts. on the nose @ Orly rwy 24...diverted from CDG due to x-wind limits on 767....Oct. 2000. During layover downtown Paris...had a hat fly by the window on the 27th floor!!!

 

[PureMuscle]

M. St. Lawrence, you flew the SR-71? Is the top speed clasified on that aircraft?

 

[User546]

LANDING: Almost a direct crosswind, 36G42. Took everything we had just to keep her lined up. Actual touch-down left a lot to be desired as well.

AT CRUISE: FL410 - 144 kts quartering headwind.

 

[NJA Capt]

45-55kts on the ground
197 kts in cruise (direct tailwind in the CX), 715 kt GS.

 

[WizardPilot]

Flight: 60kt gust 70kt quarter tail wind, in a 182, that was a rough and tumble day. It wasn't hot or else I would have broken out the shake n' bake for dinner !

Landing: 45kt


Man, these winds are nothing compared to some of these on here! FL410...maybe one day

 

[slowto250]

218 kts. out of the SW at FL 350 during the 99/00 winter.
Landed at AGC (Pittsburgh) this past Jan. with suface winds 300@42G52.
At night.