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Old 14th Nov 2014, 11:33
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What is so difficult about removing the crab I fail to understand. The only problem I see is doing it too early causing a downwind drift. Then you use the bank anyway. You are permitted to land with 5 degrees of crab. Suppose you were late in removing the crab on touchdown the aircraft will straighten itself because of CG but if you were coming with wing down it may be more than 5 degrees and during flare you may risk engine contact. In airbus you are not dealing with flight controls directly but asking computers to give rate of roll so it positions ailerons, spoilers and rudder accordingly even if you neutralise the stick, yaw damper is positioning the rudder as long as wing is down and you need to fly against that. May be that is not desired so is not recommended.
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