September 11, 201411 yr With this on you weather radar, what would you do? This is now, at EDDF - Frankfurt... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8oZO7LSJmaVMEQxX00yc1hIV3M/edit?usp=sharing
September 11, 201411 yr Author Haha okay, maybe i should have asked, would you land here in real life, not FSX :-)
September 11, 201411 yr Haha okay, maybe i should have asked, would you land here in real life, not FSX :-) If I was a hurricane hunter, probably. I do not fly western aircrafts nor equipped with western weather radars so I can't personally decrypt how severe that weather is actually is providing you fly in there a medium range airliner.
September 11, 201411 yr Author This is in 777-200... Plus you can add 17kts wind from 80 degrees left.
September 11, 201411 yr Hold, wait for it to improve, or go to your alternate. A western aircraft would hold up well... Those "eastern bloc" aircraft, well... Brendan R, KDXR PHNL KJFK Type rated: SF34 / DH8 (Q400) / DC9 717 MD-88/ B767 (CFI/II/MEI/ATP) Majestic Software Q400 Beta Team / Pilot Consultant / Twitter @violinvelocity
September 11, 201411 yr Hold, wait for it to improve, or go to your alternate. A western aircraft would hold up well... Those "eastern bloc" aircraft, well... Other way around actually, because our aircraft were built to sustain extreme weather in Siberia and also to last many decades instead of being built for money. In a normal winter day extreme weather like the OP posted would be absolutely no problem for the pilots of those equipment.
September 12, 201411 yr Well, I don't know about the crosswind landing capabilities of the 777, but granted that 17kts crosswind are within the limits, I would check ATIS the local weather at and ask the approach controller for reports of other pilots who might have landed earlier. Then I'd decide if it was safe to continue or not. The explanation: As far as I know, the weather radar itself does not say anything about the severity of wind (or any other form of movement of the air for that matter) per se, what it does is display the "amount of water in the air". While of course "red" zones (heavy rain, perhaps a thunderstorm) can be dangerous on approach and landing due to windshear, this is not something tied to the "red" areas, it could happen anywhere, although it is, of course, more likely in regions with heavy rain. That is why I would be alert and check the local weather carefully, but I wouldn't say that landing is necessarily dangerous at those conditions shown in your picture. Florian
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