December 23, 20241 yr The initial mission text stated I should land at runway 30 to a 40 knot headwind, which I did. Once I landed it told me I landed at an undesignated landing area and that I should have landed at the opposite direction, to a 40 knot tailwind. Bear in mind this was a VFR flight to an airfield with no ATC so there was no communication. As far as I know, pilots always land into the wind. Is there any reason you would do this in real life?
December 23, 20241 yr Not a 40 kt tailwind but most airliners have a company policy of 10 or less. Landing with a tailwind might be required if shooting an approach with lower minimums, or sometimes avoiding a long taxi or back taxi on an active runway. Additionally aircraft may land with a slight tailwind due to noise abatement procedures. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
December 23, 20241 yr 54 minutes ago, Jmvars said: The initial mission text stated I should land at runway 30 to a 40 knot headwind, which I did. Once I landed it told me I landed at an undesignated landing area and that I should have landed at the opposite direction, to a 40 knot tailwind. Bear in mind this was a VFR flight to an airfield with no ATC so there was no communication. As far as I know, pilots always land into the wind. Is there any reason you would do this in real life? Yes and have but need to keep your speed up :) SAR Pilot. Flight Sim'ing since the beginning.
December 24, 20241 yr Theoretically you take off with 40kts tailwind, but realistically speaking there is no runway in existence, long enough, to accommodate such long take off roll 🙂 Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
December 24, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, ryanbatc said: Not a 40 kt tailwind but most airliners have a company policy of 10 or less. Landing with a tailwind might be required if shooting an approach with lower minimums, or sometimes avoiding a long taxi or back taxi on an active runway. Additionally aircraft may land with a slight tailwind due to noise abatement procedures. 10 or less...? Hold my beer! This was 21kts and less than optimal viz... Edited December 24, 20241 yr by UrgentSiesta
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