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Old 21st Mar 2017, 13:48
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Piltdown Man
 
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Mike - are you talking about alignment, tracking or bank? Alignment would be when the nose of the aircraft is pointing an a different direction to the the runway, ie. landing crabbed. Tracking is the direction the aircraft is making over the ground. It should be the same as the runway's track, but it can be different. And you can (my preferred method) land banked, ie. upwind gear first. If you do it correctly, the aircraft's track and alignment will be the same as the runway's. However, my aircraft's manual says I can land crabbed or wing down or a combination of both. The former means the aircraft's gear can take hit on landing with a crosswind of 38 knots. I haven't tried it but some poor sod will have and the aircraft did not break when he did.
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