{"id":181292,"date":"2025-03-02T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pilots-master-takeoffs-landings-crosswinds\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:30:16","slug":"how-do-pilots-master-takeoffs-landings-during-crosswinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181292","title":{"rendered":"How Do Pilots Master Takeoffs &amp; Landings During Crosswinds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262938\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/crosswinds\/\"  >Crosswinds<\/a><\/span> are what their name suggests: they are winds that aren&#8217;t blowing straight down the runway, but, rather, are blowing across it. It&#8217;s        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2001094\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-aircraft-take-off-land-into-wind\/\" >much easier for aircraft to take off and land in a headwind<\/a><\/span>, and, as a rule of thumb, whichever runway is pointing nearest into the wind is chosen as the active runway. However, the closest runway into the            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"154902\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wind\/\"  >wind<\/a><\/span>may still not point directly into the wind, resulting in a crosswind. Here is what to know about takeoffs and landings during crosswinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots sometimes need to land and take off during crosswinds, and there are a few maneuvers they can use to safely land the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,3974,705,6281,423,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-crosswinds","category-landing","category-take-off","category-united-states","category-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181293,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181292\/revisions\/181293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}