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Old May 23, 2011 | 5:00 pm
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Originally Posted by alanh
As the prevailing winds at PHX are either up or down the Salt River valley, all three runways are E-W. Only very rarely are there crosswinds strong enough from the N or S to cause an issue.

The flow is normally toward the east in the morning and west in the afternoon, but as the video shows (it's facing west and the flow is to the east), that's not 100%.
Good to know that the mountains shield cross winds amongst the valley..

We connected in PHX on our way to KOA on spring break.. Pretty nice horseshoe airport.. bit of a pain walking the entire horseshoe just to get some Japanese.. but I guess we got a bit of a tour.
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