On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:51:39 +1100, Graeme Cant
wrote:

I think you fly at a winch site but there's another way some tug pilots
use.

Plenty of aerotows here, too...

On final the aircraft maintains alignment with a sideslip - so it
approaches wing-down. High wing, single-engine aeroplanes find this a
good technique because they land without levelling the wings (on one
wheel) and this makes landing simpler.

I know...
I'm using this technique in our Dimona motorglider, too.


The explanation may lie in the widespread use of Schweizer 2-33s in the
US whose high wing allows wing-down landings

Good point - I guess you are correct here.


As far as I can make out, that's what this discussion is all about and
it's really not for us aliens.

LMAO. Yup.

I've yet to see a broken glider just from a crosswind landing.
Shattered egos? Yes. Broken gliders? No.

Not even a shattered ego yet...



Bye
Andreas