Aircraft Crosswind Landing

Do not surprise if you are on an airliner that perform crosswind landing during the final approach. A crosswind, or sometimes abbreviated as X/WIND, is the component of wind that is blowing across the runway making a landing more difficult than if the wind were blowing straight down the runway (Headwind or Tailwind).

Pilots should not perform any take-off or landing approach when the crosswind has exceeded the limit of its aircraft.

There are several techniques to land on crosswind conditions and it depends on the choice of the pilots to execute. However, it is a risky manual approach and the Captain plays an important role to decide whether to continue landing the aircraft or abort on the final seconds.

There are De-crab, Crab and Sideslip techniques whereby majority of the pilots prefer De-crab or Sideslip to reduce the touch down impact that potentially wears the tyres and the landing gears.

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