On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:55:22 -0600, Jim Macklin wrote:

A silly policy, better to be sure the routes allowed for students have
good alternates and airports within close proximity with runways on
different headings.

The CFI should be allowed to do his job.

Many FBOs are just money-men and know nothing about airplanes or pilots.

The FBO where I did my initial training was run by someone that knows
airplanes (even if he didn't seem to like them very much {8^). But they
still had a 5 kts crosswind limit.

Perhaps I could have had it increased over time, but I never thought of
asking. The limit didn't seem that onerous, even though I also spent
plenty of time with an instructor practicing crosswind handling.

But the airport where I trained had intersecting runways, and every
airport involved in my cross countries was similarly endowed. That was
probably a deliberate choice on the part of the FBO.

There was also a headwind limitation, but I don't recall it.

- Andrew