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Just a quick question...
During a crosswind landing, for instance a left crosswind, you'd lower the left, upwind wing to counter the right drift induced by the crosswind. You'd also use some right rudder to keep the nose straight and prevent it from "weathervaning". Is this "weathervaning effect" caused by your leftward relative motion due to the left bank OR by the rightward crosswind ITSELF? Personally, I think that the former applies. The rightward crosswind only displaces the airplane to the right. Only the relative motion of the airplane with respect to that airmass would induce the weathervaning effect. I presume that the airplane does not know, aerodynamically, of the left crosswind. Next thing I was wondering, which is related to the above: say you're dead on centerline on landing, and all of a sudden a crosswind from the left starts blowing. The effect would be that you should only be displaced to the right of runway centerline. Your airplane nose would still be parallel to the centerline. Do you agree? Alex |
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