Quick way to calculate crosswind?

[Finhunter89]

I use the clock method as well. It's a quick easy way to get a ballpark idea of what you are dealing with..
10= 1/6
20= 1/3
30= 1/2
40= 2/3
50= 5/6
60 or more is basically all crosswind

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I've always just gone around when I ran out of rudder? Does your FBO has a limit on crosswinds or something?

You could also just use an E6B. Or an electronic E6B. Or an E6B application on your phone.

And you call yourself a professional...

 

[Stomp16]

Funny... I look for an orange flappy conical thing near the runway.

Speakn' of, how did your date turn out the other night?

 

[TFaudree_ERAU]

I use the "fly the damn airplane" method.

 

[dasleben]

Drunkenbeagle beat me to it.

Conversely, if you want to figure out the headwind component then you use cosine.

I initially read this as something else.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I initially read this as something else.

Mathematics is a perfectly permissible vice for an airline pilot.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

Mathematics is a perfectly permissible vice for an airline pilot.

If it were real mathematics, we would be using radians...

 

[fholbert]

I use the "fly the damn airplane" method.

I never heard of so many formulas.

Wednesday I took off Chino with 38 knots, gusts to 52. 3/4 mile blowing dust so I asked for a VFR on top. With that kind of wind I made my assigned altitude before I got to the departure end of the runway. Landed with a 25 knot crosswind at Henderson.

Returned to Chino Thursday was 30 gusting 40 but only a 30* crosswind. A Cessna was going to land behind me but he must have one of those chart thinges because last I heard he was returning to Torrance.

With my model it's said; You'll run out of guts before you run out of rudder. I go around when I feel warm urine running down my leg.

 

[Richman]

If you go off the side of the runway, it was too much.

Easy peasy...

Richman

 

[Markf64]

I never heard of so many formulas.

Wednesday I took off Chino with 38 knots, gusts to 52. 3/4 mile blowing dust so I asked for a VFR on top. With that kind of wind I made my assigned altitude before I got to the departure end of the runway. Landed with a 25 knot crosswind at Henderson.

Returned to Chino Thursday was 30 gusting 40 but only a 30* crosswind. A Cessna was going to land behind me but he must have one of those chart thinges because last I heard he was returning to Torrance.

With my model it's said; You'll run out of guts before you run out of rudder. I go around when I feel warm urine running down my leg.

That Sir!! Is hysterical.