Originally Posted by NightIP

I had something similar happen in JAN about a month back. It was a night visual to 16R with a bit of a right crosswind. When we got to about 50' I caught a pretty nice gust and had to really work to put the thing on centerline without a sideload. I went ahead and put it down somewhat firmly on the upwind wheel just so I didn't lose too much airspeed and control effectiveness with all the dramatics caused by the gust.

As we taxiied in, I actually felt really good about the approach and landing. Night visual, FD off, to a runway without an IAP and landed it safely with a gusty crosswind. But of course, once the door opened nobody seemed to care about any of that. One older man stopped by, looked at me, and said "must have been an FO landing!" I was a little annoyed by that, but what really made me angry was when an older lady stopped by the FA and told her "tell the pilot he gets an F!"

Yeah, I wasn't about to have that. I said "Ma'am, I landed the plane, why don't you tell that to me?" She kind of stammered for a minute (I don't think she thought I'd turn around), and then said "Well uhhh...the bags in the overhead weren't the only things that shifted during that landing!" The CA turned around at that point and told her that it was blustery outside and that the landing was fine.

I held my tongue, but I really wanted to ask her when the last time she landed a jet in a crosswind was...