Ferrari Mailing List: (NFC) - Crosswind at Hamburg, Germany

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

cLyDe: Your comments?  --  Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: Len (retired USAF C-141 pilot)
Subject: RE: (NFC) - Crosswind at Hamburg, Germany


Bill, I have landed under those conditions.  Suffer me to critique this pilot.  
His technique was flawwed flawed, flawwed looks better.
He knew he had a crosswind when he was on final and his technique never 
changed.  He kept adding crab until when he reached the runway his crab angle 
was the most acute.  He tried to decrease crab at the last second but when he 
did the right wing came up and he almost got the left wing tip.  (I did not see 
any sparks.)  The time proven technique with a crosswind from the right is to 
lower the right wing into the wind and hold top rudder.  If the left drift does 
not arrest you put in more right wing down.  You touch down on the right mains 
and then adjust your heading to the runway with rudder.  It is necessary to 
play your descent all the way to touchdown.  You may need a little higher 
touchdown speed than normal.  Pilots today are taught to plant the airplane and 
to do so is contrary to good technique in crosswind landings.  As Bob Hoover 
always said, "Fly the damned airplane as far into the crash as possible."  This 
pilot was lucky.  If he had dug that left wing he really would have been in a 
mess.  I suspect the flight deck in the recent Tokyo Fed Ex accident may have 
been a little deficient in touchdown technique.  
Looked like they flew it off at the last minute, hit hard, and drug the left 
wing sufficient to break it off the airplane and cause fire.  Twas a mess.  
Your further comments on this opinion are welcomed.
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Subject: (NFC) - Crosswind at Hamburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:23:06 -0400
From: red5hilser [at] aol.com

I wonder what the pilot's pucker factor was on this attempted landing? cLyDe, 
ever 'been there, done that?'  --  Bubba



 

 





  


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