"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article om,
"nrp" wrote:

A relative is working on a PPL using a Diamond DA20. The FBO has a
policy of no student solos with more than 5 knots crosswind component.
Do other FBOs do this? As a result he is having trouble scheduling his
solo cross countries.

A college buddy of mine might not have had a fatal solo if the FBO had,
and
enforced, a crosswind limit.

I don't know any of the circumstances directly involved with this specific
accident, but just on the surface, I tend to lean heavily away from this
logic. Regardless of any crosswind restriction imposed by an FBO. its
incumbent on an instructor to determine the ability of a student to handle
the conditions present at the time of solo.
If this student was killed on solo, and if crosswind was a contributing
factor in the accident, I look directly at the instructor as being the
failed factor, not the FBO.
All this talk about regimentation and formal structure by FBO's relating to
conditions is all well and good, but it should never, and I repeat NEVER be
used in a context that replaces individual instructor responsibility.

Dudley Henriques