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Dave Beal wrote:
> 
> Snowbird wrote:

> > St Stephen Ames wrote:
> > > Went out today with the plan of just doing as many TnG's in a 
> > > hour or so as I could...Everytime I called W54's AWOS there were 
> > > xwinds from 6 to 9kts...I am signed off to 5kts xwind...

> > Folks, if I'm reading this right, what we have here is a solo
> > student exceeding the limitations placed in his logbook by his
> > CFI.
 
> Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt, and
> assume that his endorsement is for a 5 kt crosswind *component*,
> and that the actual winds he's stating were winds, not components.

I was going by his own words, from a part of the post you trimmed:
>>>  god for bid, if something did happen "I" would be the
>>> one responsible for flying beyond my parameters(not my abilities,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>>> which I believe there is a big difference)...Especially the
>>> turbulance, again it drove me nuts...That has to be a part of the 
>>> psych out, me telling myself I shouldn't be up here anyway
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Now perhaps it is possible that he doesn't *understand* his
parameters, or know how to calculate crosswind component.  If
so, that would be unfortunate, although not flagrantly
disrespectful of the CFI and disregarding of FARs.

But what he wrote looked pretty specific to me.

Snowbird


