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how not to land in a crosswind
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at times i'm even amazed how the rubber stays on the rims and the gear doesn't collapse.
this pilot needs some tailwheel time.



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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [Madduck] [ In reply to ]
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uhhh. holy shit. i bet the passengers were...nonplussed.
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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [jkhayc] [ In reply to ]
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uhhh. holy shit.

That is exactly what I said. Every time. Wow.

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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [Madduck] [ In reply to ]
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Madduck wrote:
at times i'm even amazed how the rubber stays on the rims and the gear doesn't collapse.
this pilot needs some tailwheel time.


That was pretty close to getting seriously ugly.

Youtube comments from Bus pilots are pretty telling.
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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [Madduck] [ In reply to ]
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nice machine.

sometimes
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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [Madduck] [ In reply to ]
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That was nuts. I wonder how the passengers in the last few rows felt? Looks like he almost gets into a PIO situation with the rudder trying to correct to centerline.

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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [Madduck] [ In reply to ]
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I flew into Baltimore during the middle of a snow storm back in January 2003. Pilot gets on the mic as we are about to touch down and says to brace for it. We landed hard and the plane turned a bit sideways like this plane did and slid for a bit on the snowy runway. That was not fun.

The roads got shut down and we had to bribe a cab driver to drive us to our hotel.

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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [Madduck] [ In reply to ]
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I worked on a project doing photo elastic stress analysis on passenger jet landing gear. The shit is built to take amazing torsional loads.

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Last edited by: Duffy: Oct 7, 17 7:06
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Re: how not to land in a crosswind [Duffy] [ In reply to ]
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I'm willing to bet more than few passengers had some amazing loads too.

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