Pascal DucheminKCCR KCCR steep turns - stalls - emergency. ldg rway 19 with wind 180@15 G22
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I was planning on flying to Sonoma with a couple passengers. However in the morning, even though the forecast for the outgoing trip was good, the return trip would have been risky for landing back to KCCR. Forecast was giving 60 degrees crosswind at 16 which basically are the limits for the Cessna 172S (no more than 15kt crosswind component). I decided to call out the trip to Sonoma but went to do some maneuvers in the practice area by myself. I practiced a few steep turns and power off stalls at 3500 feet but kept monitoring the ATIS in KCCR and AWOS in O88 (Rio vista). I could hear the winds starting to pick up with almost no crosswind though.
I decided to head back and got clear for runway 19L straight in. Wind picked up again and even though the ATIS announced 180@16, the controller gave me 180@ 16 gust 22. He switched me to 19R (which is a wider and longer runway) probably because of these winds. When reaching 2000 feet I could really feel the bumps and wind sheer from the gusting wind. I decided to land with 20 degrees of flaps which dramatically helped. Final phases of landing ended up being uneventful. While taxiing back, I could hear various planes on the ground asking the winds to the controller, these had picked up to 19kt with gust 24. I was glad I decided to come back.
A couple hours after, I checked the METAR, winds had shift to 60 degrees crosswind with 20knots, I would not have been able to land with these.
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