"D.Duck" wrote in message
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"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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Flying in to Hong Kong in the 1980's always seemed as if we were landing on
El Camino Real Blvd in South San Francisco. Look out the windows into the
apartment houses.