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Old 03-17-2011 | 05:21 AM
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Default RE: High wind technique


ORIGINAL: HarryC

Flying in a wind is exactly the same as flying in no wind - if the plane isn't travelling where you want it, make a conventional turn with aileron until it is travelling towards where you want it. It might not be pointing in the exactly the same direction as it is travelling but that's a ground based perception problem. So if the wind is across the runway and the plane is drifting off to one side of the runway, simply make a small conventional turn until the plane is travelling along the direction of the runway. Rudder simply doesn't come into it. No plane in flight will weathervane into wind, it is physically impossible. For a landing in a crosswind, full-size don't like the side loads on the tyres or the destabilising effect of front wheels on taildraggers, so just as it touches down add a bit of rudder away from the wind to yaw it to point along the runway. Don't do it too early or the plane drifts across the runway. For models it is less important. That's the only point in a crosswind landing that you need rudder.
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While you are quick to discount everyone here as wrong even your method is flawed. You talk about using rudder only to align the nose when transitioning to land with no aileron input. You said if you do it early it will drift. That is the point of aileron in the flare to keep the drift from occuring. Models are subject to the same habits in a flare that full scale planes are. if you dont use ailerons to keep the upwind wing down you run the risk of the plane getting blown over or drifitng right off the runway in the flare.

I'll admit there has been some misleading info in this thread including some of my own. I have always used the term weathervane and I see now it is probably not the best way to describe a crab. it makes sense in my head and is very intuitive to me. To a beginner I can see where it would be a confusing and misleading term. To the OP If I confused you in any way with my terms then i apologize for that. My sim video shows everything I have been trying to describe (not very well apprently )