Originally Posted by rickair7777

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Low-time FO's who can't do a basic X-wind landing technique are a scraped wing-tip (or worse) waiting to happen. We actually do land with 20+ kt crosswinds in the regional world...

And short-field techniques come in handy all the time...especially when the flaps fail at SBA, and you don't have the fuel to F- around with the marine layer at LAX! BTDT.

I will have to admit that I have never done a soft-field landing in a jet.