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Old 4th August 2018 | 00:15
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It’s interesting


While crabbing on approach followed by pushing out the drift prior to touchdown with wings level or slight upwind wing down is the most used and recommended technique autoland systems often do it differently, inputting some wing down and opposite rudder well prior to the flare



While we’re on the subject I’d like to encourage the end of the expression ‘kick out the drift’ it’s a terrible description of what you should do, a smooth controlled push of the rudder to align the aircraft with the runway



There’s never a time you should be ‘kicking the rudder’ perhaps it’s just how some describe their input without meaning it literally but others may interpret it as a direction which may well lead to poor results
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