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Old 31st January 2003 | 05:43
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CaptSnails
 
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From: FL410 (if she's light enough)
Flyingdream there seems to be this misconception that "big" airplanes are harder to fly. Absolutely not true.
In many instances they are actually easier, for example approach. Because the aircraft is much more stable than a small aircraft and has a lot more momentum it tends to be rock solid on approach. You configure the thing and its capable of landing on its own without any control movement. A small aircraft has to be flown all the way down not the A340.

To answere your question on the x-wind landings in a particular I would say that from a pilot prospective it's probably the same thing. Bare in mind that being a fairly large aircraft it obviously occupies much more of the runway and unlike a small aircraft with which you can probably get away with being off centerline here you need to be much more careful and understand your lateral limitations. Other than that I would say that it is pretty much the same.
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