Good observation. With a trainer we sometimes struggle to get it to drop in and not float down the runway. As we change models it comes to a point where you can slow them down further than the wings will support them in flight. This is where a few minutes spent 100 ft over the runway doing low speed passes to see the stall characteristics really pays off.

When you add in a cross-wind you get that moment where the relative wind over the control surfaces is not enough for good authority. Or, even worse, when the fuselage of a low-wing model blankets the leeward wind and it drops, allowing the wind under the upwind wing and then it all goes ferschimmel quickly.


Keep up a little steam.


There are also the choices of crabbing in with a side-slip (so nice when it works) or approaching at an angle with a better presentation to the wind and then hoping for ground handling once the wheels are planted (less attractive but often effective).