Originally Posted by
MajorTomski
Congratulations on conqureing the wind! One comment though. I've been teaching RC in Oklahoma for 18 years now. We ususally stop teaching at 16 mph due to the facts the students learn very little when they are fighting winds and associated gusts like that.
For 99% of all RC planes there is absolutely no need for the plane to be lined up with the runway before touch down. It is perfectly accptable to touch down in the crab and then turn to roll down the centerline of the runway.
The need to go parallel to the line of flight is true of full scale planes but our landing gear are relatively 1000's of times stronger than a full scale plane.
So make it easier on yourself, ago ahead and get used to touching down in the crab till you get the skills of flying in the wind mastered. Then add the "polish" of makeing that full scale type in-to-the- wind cross controlled slip down.
MTC YMMV
This pretty much sums up my landing, it was crabbed all the way down, it was the touch down the didnt go so well, only because of the nasty turbulence over the barn roof that caused it to ground loop and snap the prop. If I didnt have to worry about hitting the A-26 or Panther sitting there, would make for a lower pucker factor when landing from that direction.