A new direction for an old thread: Crosswind landings

I meant to clarify in one of my
original posts that I meant that doing a base leg
using a sideslip, with the wing away from the airport
down, gets the glider further from the runway then
doing it with inner wing down instead.

Oh, and I just realized that if I use a sideslip
instead of a crab on final because I want
"to keep a stabilized final approach" I might
end up undershooting if it was a close call.
An example of "negative transfer." This is a great "correlation"
question for a student pilot!


In article ,
T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:
Don Johnstone
wrote:

What puzzles me is that we fly around all day using
the first method [wings level] to achieve our required track, why
complicate things near the ground.

The most common answer is that it's a tricky timing issue to
swing the nose at just the right time for touchdown. No
matter what you do, things at the ground are more
complicated than in the air. You have to meet conflicting
requirements imposed by the ground and the crosswind.

Slipping is a bit more stabilized between approach and
touchdown and is preferred by some.



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Mark J. Boyd