i know you're doing this on a machine and i don't know how it's set up
but with high wing light aircraft ( my only experience) you really can
only move the airplane track left or right with ailerons. punching the
rudders just moves the nose left or right. now, that's short-term.
eventually, the rudder will send the airplane left or right but that
takes a while. kinda like skidding around a turn in a car. also, on a
high wing at least, you've got a lot of room to push it over before you
have a wing hit the runway (or light or weeds or whatever). if the body
of the aircraft is already over the runway but the nose isn't then
"kicking it in" with the rudder is standard.

good luck

dan
Mxsmanic wrote:
Is it cheating/advisable/forbidden/useless to use the rudder alone to
accomplish the very last seconds of runway alignment on landing? As I
approach the landing point it becomes very difficult to turn in the
usual way just to improve alignment. Using rudder alone can line me
up perfectly right quick, but I don't know if that's the proper
technique, and I have to hold the rudder going in.

I know that the rudder can (and should?) be used to deal with
crosswinds, but I'm talking about landing in calm air and just being
an aircraft-width or so away from the centerline (which on narrow
runways or with large aircraft might mean one set of wheels on the
grass). As I get closer I'm afraid to roll the aircraft because a
wing might fall too low, or ground effect might do something
unpleasant, or something like that.

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