ORIGINAL: Top_Gunn
ORIGINAL: sensei
All I can really say is that if I am landing in a cross wind, I will carry rudder into the wind and use cross control ailerons impute leveling the wings until just before touchdown, then I neutral the controls and settle in. I really never try to over analyze stuff, I just kinda feel what the airplane is doing. But that just me...
Bob
Interesting, because this is the exact opposite of one way of landing in a crosswind. I have no desire to change the way you fly. But people looking for tips shouldn't be given bad advice.
Top Gunn is correct. Sensei, what you are doing is totally wrong. You do not hold on rudder into wind.
There are two ways to land in a cross wind. Either crabbing by slightly turning in the normal way into wind then levelling up and not touching thrudder until a blip of
away from wind rudder at touchdown, or bank into wind to let the power of the wing oppose the wind then apply rudder
away from the wind to prevent the plane from turning.
Either way, the rudder is only ever applied away from, and not into wind.
Crabbing is vastly easier and safer than sideslipping. Why so many modellers think that sideslipping is the way to land beats me, it's just another modellers myth.
So, here is my tip to make any of you a better pilot - book into a full-size flying school for some proper pilot training. Too many modellers have had extremely poor "training" and carry out some really bad practices. Proper pilot training would destroy lots of myths, greatly increase understanding, and result in much better piloting.