A new direction for an old thread: Crosswind landings

Of course teaching "crabbed landing" means teaching a crab during final into
the flare, and then a last second slip. Litteral crabbed landing would be
way too expensive.

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Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


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Graeme Cant wrote:

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

Touching down in a slip has nothing to do with making
landings "simpler." If you don't understand why a slip is
needed in a crosswind, then you don't understand the
aerodynamics involved.

The explanation may lie in the widespread use of Schweizer 2-33s in the
US whose high wing allows wing-down landings - and it works even better
than a Cezzna because it only has one main wheel and it slows down
quickly. Since the technique is a bit doubtful with the more common
mid-wing, high aspect ratio gliders that many pilots will move to, it
seems silly to teach it in the first place but that's their business and
it seems to work for them. Like you, I was only ever taught crabbed
landings.

If you only know crabbed landings, then you will land
sideways every time. That's just the reality of the
physics. In a high crosswind on a hard surface, landing
crabbed is very bad.

I seriously doubt that you were taught to land crabbed.
Most likely you were taught to use a combination of last
minute rudder to align with the runway (that ,maneuver puts
you in a slip just before touchdown) and to carefully keep
the upwind wing no higher than the downwind wing.