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Old 26th June 2011 | 01:30
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bubbers44
 
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I hope the Airbus pilot never lands a tailwheel airplane. You should never land any airplane in a crab. It is hard on the landing gear and if it has a tail wheel you will be spending some money on wingtip repairs after your ground loop. Thousands of hours of instructing xwind landings and retiring in widebody jets with a major airline the sideslip to null out the crosswind always worked for me. I have never landed in a crab ever after 23,000 hrs because it is too hard on the gear landing sideways. Even the DC8 and B747 could be landed this way respecting the max bank at touchdown. Overcontrolling during flare and getting too much of a bank angle could cause a problem so just fly a stable approach to prevent a nacelle scrape.
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