Originally Posted by
pasta
I can never quite get my head around this. I get the landing itself; you don't kick off the drift and let the undercarriage do its stuff, but what happens next? Once you're travelling sideways at a low enough speed for the aerodynamics not to be in charge, what control inputs do you apply to straighten out?
If you’re kicking off the drift in any aircraft you’re doing it wrong, the word is push