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Old 1st Mar 2006, 04:55
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huckleberry58
 
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Yes, the 'wing down' vs 'crab' technique. When I used to instruct in NZ using cessnas and pipers, I would teach the crab approach until the point where we 'roundout' then kick the rudder and aileron in. As we know the wing down technique is more difficult and the aircraft is out of balance when using cross controls. Now on the B777, technique is still the same however rudder goes in somewhere between 100ft to 50ft AGL and a tiny if any aileron as the inertia of the aircraft will keep it on centreline. The autoland on the B777 does the same, and does it beautifully.
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