On Mar 3, 1:50*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"gatt" wrote in news:13sol8u8jlhokb5
@corp.supernews.com:
WTF kind of crosswind does it take to cause this?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185
Wasn't so much the crosswind as the technique used to deal with it.
Bertie
Hah, I was about to post this vid and ask Bertie about it.
He crabbed in, then straightening out his upwind wing (not lowered)
got caught by the x wind.
I've seen numerous vids of jetliners crabbing in.
So if he'd sideslipped in with the upwind wing down and HELD it after
touch down maybe that is what would have worked? I'm assuming the the
GA approach holds for jetliners, like I said, I can't tell if I've
ever seen a jetliner sideslip vid.
If that's not the way, what is (other than the obvious find a better
runway option).