Crosswind landing and propwash tests

[TUCKIE_JG52]

Well, here goes my first tests in CoD while trying to land under strong crosswind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuMDBf6DUwE

I've placed an IA to wee what he does, in several tests he landa for the runway that has less crosswind component. Smart guy, uses correctly the crabbing technique, better than me, but his decrabs are tending to crash land the plane since de does not correct the last moment sink.

Landing after him, but with the runway that had more crosswind, I cheched some things:

-Anemometer had an instrument error (not bug, I think that's a real measurement error, caused by some lateral coomponent in advance), The fact is that a stall speed of an E-3 is about 125km/h... and IAS indication was 95 km/h only!

-Decrabbing a 109 under these conditions is extremely difficult, I understand IA's difficulties

-Once stopped on the ground, I was satisfied to chech that, as a good taildragger, the plane tends to face the wind.

-Maybe 30 m/s is a crosswind outside plane specifications, but it is almost impossible to taxi to a desired parking.

-Same for the fact that braks are inefective, and plane goes backwards when faced to wind.

-In the last ground test, wind acts as it should do the propwash, but (and I don't recorded this, soory got no diskspace left), if you stop the engine, the controls are still effective just by the action of the wind, son there's no propwash modelled!


-In general, that was a very challenging test, try it!


PS: reposted this here, in the correct sub-forum, sorry.