Crosswind Descent Hangar 
Photographic Logbook
MAY 26, 2025
We declared for runway 17 and departed the area to the southeast for a descent to pattern altitude and a 45° entry to the downwind. If it had been on a midfield left crosswind when we spotted it earlier, I was stunned that it could still be airborne and decided that it must be incredibly slow.
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MAY 19, 2025
Enter Tango Whiskey Aviation , an aerobatic flight school with operations at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester Area International Airport (KROC) and the Williamson-Sodus Airport (KSDC) where we share bays in the same hangar building. Despite the crosswind, take-off was perfunctory. Chop and drop!" A little slip-slip!
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Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Once there, he put us in a slight right turn toward our first fuel stop 60 miles ahead, continuously fighting the stick as the gusting left crosswind did its best to push us off course. As the sun began its descent, we began the final leg of what would end up being a four-hour trek.
Plane and Pilot
JANUARY 23, 2025
Landing Approach and descent Returning to the airport involves setting up for a stable approach. Although I consider myself somewhat of a fearless adrenaline junkie, watching the wheel just outside my window touch down on the pavement while the other was still suspended as we leaned into a crosswind got my heart racing a bit.
Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. We had a deal.
Professional Pilot
JULY 3, 2024
Immediately, the pilot monitoring told the passengers to buckle up as the pilot flying disengaged the autopilot and pushed the stick forward into a smooth but rapid descent. Mechanical (shear) turbulence can form in the lee of any obstacle, from hangars and towers to massive mountain ranges. Turbulence intensity table.
Air Facts
AUGUST 21, 2024
In fact, we have a window over the stove that looks into the hangar. Descent and landing is smooth and calm this evening, and I make a wheel landing for the fun of it. A cruise climb as I make my crosswind turn, then downwind, more radio calls on the way. The grin on my face seems permanent these days.
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