AIRFOILMOD
Suggest you re-read the post!!
You are the one that seems to have the problem.
Mr. Iceman- I take it to mean saving "Pink Bottom over Pride" to mean a presence of Ego in your cockpit. If your Head is in to face saving at all, you are fatally (perhaps) Behind the A/C. You cannot always save face and ass concurrently.
You can instantly interpret what input is critical by a snapshot of A/C posture? You are not talking out of your face.
My comment about "pink bottom over Pride" in simple terms for you means that MY and everyone else's bottom on the aircraft is MORE important than MY pride and it should be for every pilot. If you do not know what inputs to make to correct the aircrafts attitude without seeing what the "yoke" is doing I suggest you get another job.
RWA
Slight misunderstanding, Dream Land. As I understand the Airbus recommended procedures, you can use EITHER ailerons OR rudder, but not both at once.
First of all, that would seem to rule out crossing the controls (banking into wind balanced by a touch of opposite rudder) to reduce the amount of crabbing required to stay in line ("Before flare height, heading corrections should only be made with roll").
Secondly, the procedure appears to rule out use of ailerons during the 'decrab' ("Use of rudder, combined with roll inputs, should be avoided, since this may significantly increase the pilot's lateral handling tasks. Rudder use should be limited to the "de-crab" maneuver in case of crosswind, while maintaining the wings level with the sidestick in the roll axis.").
Don't fancy having to do it that way one bit. Apart from anything else, I was always told, besides using the rudder to de-crab,' to drop a wing slightly into a strong crosswind, to make sure that the wind didn't get under the wing and also that, if anything, the upwind wheel got 'planted' first? According to the quoted procedures, you can't do that in an Airbus?
Unfortunately you do not know what you are talking about!! A lot of you guys are failing to understand that this is an aircraft and funny old thing you actually have to fly it sometimes. What do you think
Rudder use should be limited to the "de-crab" maneuver in case of crosswind, while maintaining the wings level with the sidestick in the roll axis.").
means?? Using rudder with aileron!!!
We are in the flare here RWA. Boeing say you can use wing down or crab technique on the approach, Airbus just suggest crab technique to reduce possible PIO's with wing down.