A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:
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Bob Clough wrote:

Anyone notice what seemed to me to be rather large deflections of the
rudder during landing at LAX the other day? The video is on CNN --
can't provide direct link so go to CNN video site and search for
"Gigantic jet arrives in U.S.".

Was there a significant crosswind that morning? On touchdown, the A380
appears to turn a bit and then recover. I believe the 380 gear is
designed to land somewhat crabbed on a pivot and then turn straight.


Nope. No real crosswinds at all. the video on CBS2.com (CBS LA
Affiliate) has ATC comms on it, and when MSN101 checked in, Tower
reported winds 280 at 4. So for all intents, winds were calm. They
definitely turned to recover it, and it was dramatic on the CBS2 video.
I think they just missed the runway centerline and corrected to get
back onto that. Just with the size of that beast, any correction like
that is going to look drastic.

Here's the URL to the video:



There was some speculation on pprune that they
may have applied reverse thrust before the nose
was firmly planted. If that was the case, a
little asymmetry with the reverse thrust coming
on could cause the yaw.