Cirrus SR20 Gusty Pattern Crosswind Landing OWD 10-16-11

This is a pattern video of me flying the Cirrus SR20, 168SR at Norwood, my home airport. I hadn't flown her in a few months so this was intended to be a day of practice and currency. It turns out this also still remains my most recent and perhaps final flight in 168SR. In the following months, life and weather conspired to limit my flying and now recently 168SR has gone off the rental line at Norwood. Watch this channel to see if we get reunited some day. This also turned out to be more of a windy day than I had thought. The audio captures a METAR update at the airport as I'm turning base and you'll hear that I'm using runway 28 with the winds at 240 at 12 gusting to 20. Nothing terrible but as you will see and hear, I felt that this was one pattern where I had to fight it all the way around! I think I did pretty well for being rusty and given the conditions it was certainly a little challenging. I do like being able to see the nose angled into the slight crosswind on final. Once again this is a 3 camera HD video with ATC audio. Enjoy