Directional control after touchdown...

Matt Whiting wrote:

Newps wrote:



Peter Dohm wrote:




I am pretty sure that there is also more wind six feet from the
graound than
there is three feet from the ground.


You're kidding.




Presumably there are plenty of statistics on the subject,



You'll never find that as it isn't true.


It absolutely is true. Wind velocity drops dramatically as it
approaches a surface.

I better get my digital handheld windmeter recalibrated becxause at 4
feet, the top of the wing on my Bo and six feet, the top of the wing on
a typical Cessna the wind is the same.