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.
What I was referring to was the fact that bigger planes use different techniques than smaller ones do. How is a few hundred hours of ground reference maneuvers going to help a pilot in the airline world? A CFI mostly sits there with his/her hands in their lap while someone else does the flying anyway. A better path would be to skip those wasted years and learn directly from a seasoned pilot such as yourself.
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