Originally Posted by
jayray2
I'm not making any judgments here on this this incident, just something this got me thinking about. Aren't the wind limitations on most planes based on the max sustained winds? As opposed to the gust factor?
For us we take the gust into account as its the highest "wind" at the time. I do remember reading a few months ago that (Pinnacle maybe) got a memo saying to ignore the gust and only use the steady state wind.