Matt Whiting wrote:

wrote:


Matt Whiting wrote:


wrote:


Matt Whiting wrote:



Did you ever intentionally land with the crab angle intact? This is
what is advocated by a gentleman on the MSFS group who says he is a
retired "heavy" captain.


I saw it done once in a 707 and I thought the landing gear was going to collapse.


He posted a bunch of references daying that landing with crab was SOP
for airlines and the military. I find it hard to believe and it
contradicts most everything I've read on the subject, but I don't fly
heavies so all I know is what I read.

Matt


He sounds like a phony to me.


He's no phony. He's the founder of this organization:
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/ifpf_history.htm



Well, he *is* a phony as to claiming that he understands how to fly transport category
civil jets.

Mr. Moore from Pan Am stated it exactly right and I was at TWA, where we did the same.
And, I have ridden the jump seat of many airlines in my commuting days and they all do
it the same.

Mr. Moore added a caveat that applied to the 707 in particular about accepting some crab
in a strong cross-wind, but that caveat does not apply to most airliners. The 707 had
about the lowest pods in the business, if not the lowest.