We fitted big castors to our PA28 and crabbing now works ... every time.
Only thing is .... she now assumes the intelligence of a super market trolley on landing, so if rudder authority is lacking we send most intelligent pax quickly onto starboard wing to kick out and get said PA28 around the corners .....
I\'m now in the twilight zone regards landings. Having used the crab method since day 1 ........ I found myself abroad ...... and she (with instructor hat on) said that I should try wing down. So, I did a couple of real greasers (much to my surprise) and came home all determined to give it a bash.
Now admittedly I\'ve only done a couple of landings since my return (blame £15 a shot per landing
) but it\'s all gone to pot !!
I now start wing down, creep back to crabbing, correct it, and carry on all the way down to the flare which has become a floaty, porpoisy not-quite-sure which point of the runway I\'m touching down on
So ..... I\'m booking an instructor ..... do I go back to my old ways ? Or do I stick with trying the new tool for my toolbox ?
I like short fields, and have probably used crabbing in the past for fear of striking a wing tip, which really would need to be pretty dramatic wing-down in a PA28 .....
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh