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Old 26th Apr 2007, 23:33
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bubbers44
 
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Would you want to be dropped on a runway in your car at 150 miles per hour without your wheels being aligned with the runway. Why do it to your airplane? If you are good enough to do it 100% of the time during the flair with wings level and kicking it out fine, if you are like most of us and encounter a gust during flair and have the wing down into the wind you can still land uneventfully without drifting off the downwind side. I was taught this technique soloing in an Aeronca 7AC and it works well on the B767.
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