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Old 30th Jan 2014, 08:37
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Shaggy Sheep Driver
 
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I'm with Chuck. I, too, started to fly in gliders and whether that's influenced me, I don't know. I just have never seen the point of cross-controlling down final every time there's a x-wind element (so most times, then) when one can fly the aeroplane far more 'naturally' by simply taking up a heading which results in the correct track along final approach. Kicking off the drift and transitioning into wing-low for the last few feet does take skill and practice to get right, but seems a far more natural way to do it.

The exception is a deliberate slipping approach (sometimes a slipping final turn) done with full rudder with track held with aileron in, say, the L4 Cub (no flaps) to increase the ROD on final.
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