Dan wrote:
On Mar 10, 8:04 pm, Phil J wrote:

There's some video of an Ercoupe crosswind landing starting at 5:42 in
this clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ob7toBLP2I

Now that's some side load!

The V tail sure looked purdy...

I was practicing Touch and gos right seat yesterday with a 90 degree
gusty x-wind (8-15 knots) in a C172. I'm glad no one had a camera on
me!

:-)

Dan

Typical landing for the Ercoupe :-)) The T34 got it right. Most of the
rest corrected out of the crab a bit high and committed a very basic
error. They came out of the windward aileron too far instead of leaving
it in the required slip angle for the wind correction catching the
runway heading with rudder.
This transition for a crosswind is one of the most difficult things to
teach new student pilots. It's a matter of "feeling" the wind as you
exit the crab. Come all the way out with that aileron and you start
sideways. It's fun to watch but can get a bit scary at times :-))

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Dudley Henriques