Tailwheel Crosswind Landing

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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but it seems to me that if
I am going to swerve on takeoff, it is always to the left, and if I am
going to swerve on landing, it is always to the right.

That makes since Dan since as you add power for take off, you create 3
factors trying to make your plane go to the left.

1) Torque
2) Corkscrew slipstream
3) Gyroscopic effect when you lift the tail.

All of these cause you to add just a little more right pedal (unless you
already have too much) to keep it straight down the centerline and not to
the left.

As you're landing, you're reducing power and speed which in turn reduces
each one of the above effects causing you to use less right pedal, or
perhaps even a little left pedal to keep it straight or from going to the
right.

PJ

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Here's to the duck who swam a lake and never lost a feather,
May sometime another year, we all be back together.
JJW
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:28:05 -0900, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

As you're landing, you're reducing power and speed which in turn reduces
each one of the above effects causing you to use less right pedal, or
perhaps even a little left pedal to keep it straight or from going to the
right.

That's very likely the case.

In the most recent instance, the left rudder pedal had been re-rigged
since the last time I'd flown the Cub, or at least since last winter,
and the swage left a fuzz of wire bristles that kept catching on my
winter sneakers, which are high-top Nikes with a Gore-tex lining and
waffle-stomper soles. As a result, I simply couldn't use the left
brake, and I went off the runway into the grass after a three-point
landing. Coming home, I landed on two wheels, you bet!

The first thing I did when I got home was to get out the Leatherman
tool and bevel off the sole of both sneakers at the widest part of the
ball of the foot.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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