Originally Posted by
RichardJones
Interesting indeed.
I am not qualified, therefore know nothing about FBW.
My first job in aviation was abinitio instructing. Started just after turning 20. Now the xwind landing technic i taught then is the same technique I used throughout my career, up to and including, heavy Jet Transport a/c until I retired.
Yes smoothly and graduale, does it.
The basics are the same. Why? It is a fixed wing aircraft,
After about 12 months instructing I was an ag pilot for 10 years, operating 5 different types of tailwheel a/c.,in both hemispheres .
When you were expected, to operate from an airstrip, that was scraped off a ridge in hill country you learnt how to fly crosswind, very quick. Same technique. Laterally, some of those ridge strips were and still are, shaped like a banana on its side. But I digress.
What I am trying to get across, is you cannot just drop the aircraft on the ground without initatating some form of corrective action before that. Hope that makes sense.
The most unforgiving a/c to fly in a xwind is a floatplane.. land with drift in that, it will tip over.
Well said RJ...Basic skills are the same in anything I've flown...even FIFI
