Crosswind Threshold Weather 
Pilot Institute
JUNE 9, 2025
Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Wind correction is critical, especially crosswind drift on the outbound leg. Bad Weather Sometimes the airport may not be busy, but conditions at the time aren’t suitable for an airplane to make a safe landing. The crosswind component.
Professional Pilot
MAY 7, 2025
A pproaching the threshold, the flying pilot was trying to keep the wings level in the gusty crosswind. Gust factors are normally applied to crosswind landings, and, indeed, LLWS may be directional and involve crosswinds. Climate Scientist Downburst windshear can cause aircraft to deviate from the approach path.
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Pilot Institute
MARCH 28, 2025
Pilots can find out the prevailing winds aloft such as from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center and predict the vortices direction and rate of drift behind the preceding aircrafts flight path. As at higher altitudes, the vortex movement near the ground is affected by crosswinds. The vortex, as a whole, drifts along with the wind.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas.
Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Unfortunately, opportunities to get there can be few and often come down to the whimsy of weather. Weather conditions were different this time around, but the critical difference was that The Bear was flying right seat with me. I awoke that morning at 5:00 am and checked weather, squinting at ForeFlight on my phone in the dark.
Pilot Institute
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Weather It’s a good idea to brief any weather that could make your landing more challenging. If there is a crosswind at the airport, you should mention this in your brief. Discuss your nominated crosswind technique. Explain what aircraft input you will require to land the aircraft in the crosswind.
Pilot Institute
MAY 4, 2024
Weather, field conditions, obstacles, and many other elements greatly affect short field operations. If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. The aiming point at an actual short field should be as close to the threshold as is safe. Will you need a crosswind correction?
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