"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:28:19 -0500, Eisboch penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|
|"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
.. .
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| I keep seeing that lame airbus crap.... here is how a REAL airplane
| handles a crosswind:
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOxo0s33sI
|
|
|
|I don't get it.
|
|When I was first learning to fly, the initial, basic technique taught was
|crabbing, like those shown in the video.
|Later, we were taught to dip the aircraft into to the crosswind, in a
|balanced turn offset by the effects of the crosswind, and the approach
was
|normal to the runway.
|
|Then again, I am not a super experienced pilot, so maybe there's
something
|going on here that I don't understand.
|
|But ... I'll always remember ... any landing that you can walk away from
was
|a good one!
|
|Eisboch
|

Maybe they have X-wind landing gear?
Check out Figure 12-11
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-468/ch12-3.htm


Breeze exceeds demonstrated crosswind component and An Oh, ****
moment....
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...21_landing.wmv


Good X-wind at Kai Tak
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...%20Landing.mpg




I've flown into Kai Tak, as a passenger, many times. It seemed like
everyone of the landings was an adventure.

Haven't flown into the new HK airport, I wonder if that's just as
"exciting".




This stuff happens at takeoff, too.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f833aa0b9a

A breezy day on the continent
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dcb9946108

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