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Old 30th Sep 2015, 13:33
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Monarch your quote and presumably what you so knowledgeably pointed out to your TRI says to aim upwind so the main gear touches down on the centre line, the main gear...are you serious? The technique mentioned by Speedy from the FCTM is of course correct. Its the same way the autopilot achieves it in an autoland, rudder to decrab and a little into wind to prevent/correct any drift...The autopilot applies the wing drop as it is straightening and as such stays tracking the LOC. In a manual landing your nose "appears" to drift down wind as you straighten so you should apply wing drop in the same manner. The technique error arises by pilots not recognising or anticipating this drift early enough, as the AP does and therefor applying wing drop after straightening from a downwind position. They then think by aiming upwind next time all will work.....and it does but all they and you are doing is masking poor technique.
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