re: Planes landing in 60 knots crosswinds

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Planes landing in 60 knots crosswinds

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Some pilots there do it a little better than others on the video. I've seen these type of videos for a while and can watch one after another. I only experienced a landing like this once and it was in a Cessna 185. Aligned askew to the runway and the pilot crabbed in and aligned at the last second. He was a crusty old dude. It was on one of my oilfield flights between Venice and Lafayette. Yeah it was a float plane. Winds were 25 mph from the south at takeoff on the water. At landing about 30 mph out of the northwest. We flew through the front and that was the most turbulent flight I've ever been on. The pilot just held the strut to the window and flew through it. He warned me it was going to be rough.