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Old 7th Jan 2013, 00:22
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Don't know the answer to your specific question, but on A320/321/330; by 100 kts on the take-off roll, the ADIRS have worked out the wind speed and direction and display it on the ND's.

So it would be a relatively simple operation to write some software to work out the cross wind component, (the aircraft knows what runway it's on) and then have a 'look-up' table to apply an appropriate amount of into-wind aileron.

Interesting though, because on A320/321/330, Airbus recommend no into-wind aileron on take-off because roll spoilers could be deployed which would increase drag too much.

Is this a precursor to automatic take-off's I wonder ??


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