I knew that flaps make your crab angle greater because of the slower speed, but I never thought about the reduced elevator and rudder authority. Good show..
Good information for the ACS technique stabilized approach with a fairly low power setting. There are many advantages to using the STOL technique power/pitch approach. One really important advantage, especially in gusty air, is the extra relative wind on the wing root, elevator, and rudder provided by continuous prop blast all the way to touchdown slowly and softly exactly where desired. Yes, full flaps is a very useful part of the equation. In serious crosswind component conditions, the power/pitch approach allows safe angling across the runway from downwind corner to upwind thousand feet stripe. This technique takes the LOC bite out of a 40 knots direct crosswind say. It is hard to seriously damage an airplane at 20 knots touchdown ground speed. It is the speed that kills in LOC landing accidents. We old pilots have never gotten on board with faster ground speed in God given headwind components. Yes, the other part of that crosswind component is a headwind component. Use the flaps. They were put there for your safety.
It’s great as usual, especially you notify the Students how is important the airflow affect on landing. I suggest if you make another part of this video and you split the screen into a half shows your hands and legs of how they control and the other half shows the airplane from outside while you land and how you control the airplane to land straight and what happen if you’re not landing straight in the middle Center line and how you get it back to the Center line if you feel you will land sideway . it will be great video
Is this more of an issue for high wing airplanes, as compared to low wing airplanes? Given that flaps are located at or below the level of the horizontal stabilizer on low wing planes, I can envision that flaps cause less disturbance over the rudder than would be expected for high wing airplanes.
I knew that flaps make your crab angle greater because of the slower speed, but I never thought about the reduced elevator and rudder authority. Good show..
It can make a big difference on a short field!
Good information for the ACS technique stabilized approach with a fairly low power setting. There are many advantages to using the STOL technique power/pitch approach. One really important advantage, especially in gusty air, is the extra relative wind on the wing root, elevator, and rudder provided by continuous prop blast all the way to touchdown slowly and softly exactly where desired. Yes, full flaps is a very useful part of the equation.
In serious crosswind component conditions, the power/pitch approach allows safe angling across the runway from downwind corner to upwind thousand feet stripe. This technique takes the LOC bite out of a 40 knots direct crosswind say. It is hard to seriously damage an airplane at 20 knots touchdown ground speed. It is the speed that kills in LOC landing accidents. We old pilots have never gotten on board with faster ground speed in God given headwind components. Yes, the other part of that crosswind component is a headwind component. Use the flaps. They were put there for your safety.
OK but what about low wing aircraft? Same? I doubt it, BUT??? What say you?
It’s great as usual, especially you notify the Students how is important the airflow affect on landing. I suggest if you make another part of this video and you split the screen into a half shows your hands and legs of how they control and the other half shows the airplane from outside while you land and how you control the airplane to land straight and what happen if you’re not landing straight in the middle Center line and how you get it back to the Center line if you feel you will land sideway . it will be great video
I don't see a link for the max crosswind component video that you mentioned about halfway through this video
Is this more of an issue for high wing airplanes, as compared to low wing airplanes? Given that flaps are located at or below the level of the horizontal stabilizer on low wing planes, I can envision that flaps cause less disturbance over the rudder than would be expected for high wing airplanes.
Can happen on both, it I notice it more on high wings
20kts! Wow. I can only get 11 knots (Vans RV)