Crosswind landing and propwash tests

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by =XIII=SAS

That's not what I wrote. Read again mate.

I said, when you de-crab and start side slipping for your flare, you start having IAS error. Straight and level flight should not be affected; apart of course by compressibility and position error.

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[Space Communist]

Haha wow, yeah there would really be no need to crab at all landing in a hurricane like that. Just nose her into the wind and land cross-ways to the runway. You could land at like only 25 kph relative to the ground, almost a hover landing.

[TX-EcoDragon]

Originally Posted by =XIII=SAS

+1 here.

Most europeans won't use the slide technique (wing low) for landing as for north American, it's the first one that's being thaugt. In fact, the slide was apparently removed from the PP training syllabus in France.

So what do they teach? The "Crab and Kick" technique? And what about for those pilots that are flying taildraggers?

In most cases (ignoring very large aircraft with castering landing gear, or extremely robust gear) the ideal situation is one where there is no lateral drift, and the aircraft is aligned with the landing direction to prevent sideloads, this is particularly true in taildraggers/conventional gear airplanes to prevent ground loops. . . most feel that this is best accomplished with the wing low method / side slip.

Originally Posted by TX-EcoDragon

So what do they teach? The "Crab and Kick" technique? And what about for those pilots that are flying taildraggers?

In most cases (ignoring very large aircraft with castering landing gear, or extremely robust gear) the ideal situation is one where there is no lateral drift, and the aircraft is aligned with the landing direction to prevent sideloads, this is particularly true in taildraggers/conventional gear airplanes to prevent ground loops. . . most feel that this is best accomplished with the wing low method / side slip.

(Taildragger here) That's what I do .... crab on final to slip at touchdown, typically wheeling it on.