On Jul 6, 7:05*pm, John Smith wrote:

I highly recommend reading Leighton Collins' book, TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS.

Actually I have. While most books always touch base on technique and
such, this is my self imposed limits.

Now, I can land my plane on a 50 foot wide runway at maximum Xwind
component when called to task, but why?

I have yet to find any reason in my short 7 years of flying to add
more risk or try to shoe horn a landing on a shorter or narrower then
**my normally encountered** runways.

I have very conservative limits when it comes to go and no go and have
not and will not deviate from that. If winds were above my safety
factors, then I'd go to a neighboring airport or concede and use my
car.

The Carthage exercise was to expand on my experiences, not test my
limits as the airplane doesn't care how far the edges of the runway
are as long as I maintain centerline and the edges are wider then the
foot print of my plane. I wanted to experience the narrow runway
illusions that I had never experienced before.

My Xwind landing limits is 17 knots direct Xwind at my own airport
with a 75 foot wide runway.

The Jackson (KJAN) exercise was for working with Ground controllers,
just to keep me sharper in the movement area of an airport that has
more then one taxiway. It is very rare I even go to a controlled
airport, not that I avoid them, just much more convenient for people I
meet up with when I fly (thus the beauty of GA)