"John R Weiss" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote...

The pilot flying keeps his feet on the rudder
pedals when hand-flying the aircraft.

An unsafe practice, for modern airliners.

Why does Boeing and the FAA advocate such an "unsafe practice," then?

You need to know how to fly the airplane when it is broke. I think
simulator time would be a much better place to play "hand fly the airplane"
than during revenue.

Rudder is used to deliberately
un-coordinate the aircraft when taking off and landing with a
crosswind.

No, use of the rudder is explicity unsafe.

It's Ex-Lax time! You're so full of crap, it's taken over your brain!
Use of
rudder is absolutely required for crosswind takeoffs and landings, else
the
airplane will run off the side of the runway. Seldom will an airplane
track
absolutely straight down the centerline even with no wind or a direct
headwind -- on crowned runways especially!

Sure, but then you need to leave the rudder alone. There are exceptions to
using the rudder, but in the general case, a modern airliner breaks when the
operator panics while using the rudder. (ie A-300 USAir 427) The worst part
about the A-300 crash was that AA had been teaching heavy rudder use in the
simulator, thereby increasing the probability that the event would occur.

It is much the same as the small GA pilot who gets in a wrestling match with
his yoke, intead of pushing the AP disconnect switch.

Even autoland
uses opposite rudder to convert from a crab to a slip, usually at 150'
AGL.

Nice for a DC-9.

Just as nice for a 747!

Sure, an '68 design.

No, there is no question whatsover that the AA pilots were in violation
of
that flight rule. What came out of the A-300 acident was both large
transport manufacturers saying pilots should not use the rudder under
normal
operations.

Yet another total BS Tarverism for the archives...

You might want to back off from being an archive troll, Weiss.