Tailwheel Crosswind Landing

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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