Crosswind landing video

[=BKHZ=Furbs]

Very nice crosswind landing video from Quax.

 

Helped me quite a bit.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZGdr8YkmU

[SYN_Vorlander]

thats a ninja landing. Brilliant Quax

[Bando]

WOW 

[Obi1Wingman]

Now that is some serious flying!!! +1!!

[Karost]

Here is my Video  please enjoy it while waiting next testing session. 

 

[Skoshi_Tiger]

Karost,

 

Your video is a much nicer example of landing procedure than the first video.

 

Many thanks, it was very informative.

[heinkill]

Looks from these that the flight mechanics are very much spot on, can't wait to get into those cockpits! Thanks for posting.

[DD_Squawk]

Nice video's. I noticed both of you used the meathod of crabbing into the wind, to varrying degrees. It is a well established technique for dealing with crosswinds.

 

I wonder if it is the dominant cross wind landing procedure for most pilots here? ( thoughts?)

 

Personally however, I prefer to side slip into the wind on final as it allows me to keep my nose pointed down the runway, while also giving me an indicaton of how much rudder is needed on landing. It has the added benifit of keeping the gear more or less inline with the direction of landing. If a tail wheel aircraft is landed and is still yawing it has a much greater chance of groundlooping.

 

(Aileron into the wind to stop drift, opposite rudder to keep nose aligned with the runway. Steeper angle to see the runway on approach. Works best for wheel landings.)

[-MG-Cacti4-6]

very impressive. I did my xwind landing by flying a pattern, doing a touch and go, and then hopping in the circuit and landing. very conventional from me, nosing up and catching that wind, then basically pulling an immelman back down onto the runway was a method i never thought of using. 

 

very impressive indeed

[Skoshi_Tiger]

pulling an immelman back down onto the runway was a method i never thought of using.

I doubt anyone else has seriously thought of it either.

[Wombat]

I doubt anyone else has seriously thought of it either.

I must admit I use a similar method some time to drop speed quickly.  No need to slow down for gear and flaps when enemy ac is close by. If at the top of zoom where you have dropped all your speed you can decide to abort and regain combat speed quickly. Never in RL but ok online. Oh and done right it looks good from the AF.