5 Minutes With Aopa-china

Wind, ,and take-offand landing  Nick: Hi, there. 5 Minutes with AOPA-China,Episode 49.Beijing has always been a windycityin China.This weekif you are in Beijing, you know what I mean. Most residents in Beijing must have seen thepower of strong winds this Monday. And51 out of 1,561 scheduledflights were canceled at Beijing Capital International Airportby 6 pmlast Sunday. Many airplanes whichhad been intended to land in PEK had to fly to the alternate airports.Of course,this caused inconveniences. Many people had to reschedule their trips and timeare wasted.There wasanextreme example. The planewas hundreds of feet above the runway, still it went aroundand land in an alternate airport. Nick:How doesWind affect aircraft takeoff and landing?Today wehave our friend, Captain Kingsley, a commercial jet pilot and helicopter instructor from New Zealand.Kingsley,now I’m all ears.  Kingsley Captain:Aircraft are designed totakesoff and land into a headwind as thisreduces the distance the