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Originally Posted by Dantilla
Do commercial flights have actual limits?
For the small, general aviation airplanes I fly, there is no "limit". The Pilot's Operating Handbook (POH- the airplane version of owner's manual) lists what the factory test pilots demonstrated during certification, but it is not a legal limit. Pilot's are allowed to exceed it if they so choose.
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We have a Cessna 182. In Oklahoma most days it is just like the musical "where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain" we often take off and land with the wind sock point straight out. We certainly have limits, but any experienced pilot in Oklahoma can take off and land in crosswinds. We have taken off and to keep looking down the runway you have to look out the side window. When every other pilot at the airport is taking off and landing is is no big deal. It was cool to watch a T-6 Texan II come down from Vance and do several touch and goes as we are doing our pre-flight. The T-6 got a lot of crosswind practice that day.