alt Hacker NewsLanding either way is not realistic. Even with no wind airports have a designated runway open. For example a straight North and South "runway" has runway 0 and runway 18, and only one will be open at any given time regardless of windspeed.
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sdh9 • today at 12:45 AM
Runway 36
If an airport is uncontrolled, planes can land in either direction. Whether the pilots choose to do so is a different matter.
At airports with towers, the controllers can allow landings in either direction. That they usually don't is more of a function of existing traffic.