Hi allI'm posting this here giving you simmers who like bad and challenging weather the chance to fly into airports like Gatwick or Heathrow tommorrow in bad conditions.A storm is approaching from the west, isobars tightly packed therefore winds will be a strong. Forecast to be southerly at 70mph or greater. If the wind remains as a southerly it will be a crosswind at these airports. I don't know what the crosswind limits are on airliners, but something tells me not many a/c will be landing tommorrow. The full strength looks like it will be overhead at 1200GMT.Enjoy, and safe flying.Will

Think I'll get the microlight out then :-lol :-lol :-lolDavid

:-lolI'll get into my glider.. who needs an engine!

Just had a quick on-line flight from Bournemouth to Bembridge in the new MS500- online WX winds 270 22kts gusting 57 kts - nearly got blown over taxying at Bournemouth- got off OK - bounced around for 20 mins then tried lining up for final RW30 at Bembridge- did eventually get down only to be blown over once I stopped.As I live right on the track I flew - about 12 miles E of EGHH I can testify to the accuracy of the WX produced by FSMetar/FS9.The wx seen out of my window here was just about the same as I was seeing out of the window in FS.(Just a daft thought - I could have waved to myself as I went by)I think I'll come back on the Isle of Wight ferry!!!:-walksmile Dave

I don't think anything can land with a 70 MPH crosswind. Of course with a helicopter you can always land with a headwind, no matter which direction the wind is from, as long as your IAS can excede wind velocity.David

>I think I'll come back on the Isle of Wight ferry!!!Just reminded me of a joke:What is brown, steams and comes out of Cow(e)s backwards?The Isle of Wight ferry Andy b :-)

With a 70 kt headwind, and considering at approach speed of a C172 is 70 kts, you could always hover onto your parking spot :DCheers,Danny