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Old 19th Apr 2009, 17:29
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"hopefully neither" Well, lets just say the magnitude of the crosswind was even more. Same wet runway. It is given that the aircraft does take off all engines, within the confines of the runway. The runway is "very very" wide, say 500 feet. You get my point. Wind from the left:

possibility one: The plane weather cocks left into the wind, and moves to the left of the centreline, the application of full RIGHT rudder is not enough to keep the aircraft on the centreline, and the aircraft moves UPWIND by, say, 30 feet from the centreline before recovering back to the centreline.

possibility two: Due to the runway being wet, and the tires not gripping as well as on a dry runway, the aircraft drifts downwind despite the application of full LEFT rudder opposite to the direction of drift, ie opposite to the application in possibility one above. The aircraft moves DOWNWIND by, say 30 feet from the centreline before recovering back to the centreline.

Is one possibility more likely than the other? In other words, which way does the aircraft go once the crosswind reaches a limit that the aircraft cannot fully control?
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