"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Matt Whiting wrote:



Did you ever intentionally land with the crab angle intact? This is
what is advocated by a gentleman on the MSFS group who says he is a
retired "heavy" captain.


I saw it done once in a 707 and I thought the landing gear was going to
collapse.


He posted a bunch of references daying that landing with crab was SOP
for airlines and the military. I find it hard to believe and it
contradicts most everything I've read on the subject, but I don't fly
heavies so all I know is what I read.


Matt

I flew, as a qualified pilot/instructor pilot, the T-38, B-52 and B-1B in
the AF. The T-38, hardly a heavy, was landed fully crabbed into the wind.
As has already been mentioned, the gear was turned in the B-52 to align with
the rwy so that effectively had the aircraft crabbed into the wind, and in
the B-1B, you crabbed until short final, approaching the over run, where you
aligned yourself with the rwy hdg in a wing low attitude and landed on the
upwind truck, just like in a 172.

JB