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As for dual if it's legal we fly.

Umm aren't instructors suppose to go up with students in cross wind condition to teach then gauge their performance?

Of course, it's one of the required boxes to check in the PTR. Of course I learned to fly when things were a bit looser, and/or we were out of reach of TC. That year there weren't any crosswinds period, the wind was always straight up and down the runway so eventually I had to teach myself.

Quick question: Is this true about the wind and weather limitations? Not a rumor.
But verifiable fact.

Has uttering the word safety now become such a buzzword that it is hampering proper flight training?

Is that why you were all ready to divert that day when I told you it was ten knots across the runway?

Knowing the windsock lies, and you probably couldn't read it worth a damn anyway; while flying an airplane almost as wide as the runway, I had a backup plan. Of course the landing itself was my customary immaculate, on the center line, greaser. I'll show you how it's done some day grasshopper.

Flight training is definitely reaching for the bottom step these days...

I sell them on the point it may just save their life one day

Can we stop the generalizations about FTU's? I train many CPL's and before I recommend them for a flight test they will have experienced a 12-15 kt x wind component. Most of my PPL students will also do this. I sell them on the point it may just save their life one day and they don't want to be an average private pilot.

I agree there is some poor training and excessive safety rules out there. There is also a lot of people trying hard to turn out a good product. It has also been said before that there aren't many operators coming to the FTU's to offer suggestions...

But what do I know? I'm just an instructor...

Good for you, it nice to see instructors trying to give more than the TC minimum. As for your request for "stopping the generalizations about FTU's"....well good luck with that

On a more serious note, it is also not only handling the crosswind that is important, at the CPL level you should be comfortable with up to a 10 knot tailwind. I try to give every student a tailwind approach and landing although at a busy airport with a control tower this can be difficult to fit in.

Argh...just the fact that you have to sell normal crosswind landing technique as a life saving skill is depressing. Everything up to the demonstrated x-wind should be fair game for ANY pilot on ANY airplane they fly. It's not rocket surgery people!!!