Originally Posted by
Chuck Ellsworth
There are a lot of pilots who use the wing down sideslip method to keep their airplane tracking the runway center line on the final approach to landing.
Do they fly their cross country tracks using the wing down side slip method to maintain the desired track?
Chuck,
Though it has been awhile since a thread was added to this forum, I just recently ran across it when researching this topic.
As a Harrier guy, I learned to do nothing but a crabbed approach, and still do it today as a natural piloting skill in commercial aircraft.
Someone tried to tell me once that for high wing a/c one should utilize the wing down top rudder, but I just can't; and I don't even think it is safer. For me it feels less safe.
We should remind the naysayers that one could also do the ultimate -- land vertically with the harrier weather vane pointed into the wind, but that is hard to do in a 777.
Thanks again Chuck!
Joe