Additionally, if you don't crab to stay centered during final, you stalling
speed will be higher. I never saw anybody slipping for wind correction in a
glider in Europe...

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"Stefan" a écrit dans le message de news:
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Graeme Cant wrote:

Judging the required control input is different. You used the phrase
"use the ailerons to level the wings". Why didn't you say "use rudder to
yaw the glider straight"?

The colourful phrase you actually used - "a bootfull of rudder" - from an
instructor has probably caused more students to find crosswind landings
difficult than any other aspect of the manoeuvre.

My opinion exactly. How many pilots use slipping to correct for wind while
flying cross country? My wild guess is: none. We all crab without even
talking about it. So what is the reason they don't do so during the
landing?

I can think of only two reasons: They've never learnt to master the rudder
or they've never learnt to recognize and hold the runway axis unless it's
right ahead of their nose. Both reasons claim for more training, not a
change of method.

Stefan