When I learned to fly I was taught two ways to land in a cross wing, the side slip and the crab method. The side slip method to me is so much better than the crab yet all of these airline jockeys always crab in. Anyone know why? With the side slip using cross controls, aileron and rudder, the fuselage and wings are lined up thruout the entire final approach the only thing out of whack is the nose wheel and on a tail dragger u don’t even have that problem. I don’t get it....
You crab until the flare, because you should NEVER slip a swept wing jet until you are in ground effect.
Heavy jet isn’t built like a Cessna trainer. You can’t slip them in. You’ll drag the wing, or the pod, or both, depending on the model.
They all crab in, they try to straighten it with the rudder at the last instant, but sometimes they can’t, and sometimes they blow all the tires.
Depends on how much rudder authority they have at their disposal whether or not they even have the option to slip it straight in.
The landing gear is built to take a bit of side load like that, and aircraft with low-hanging engines don’t have the slip option anyway. Most every “radical crosswind landing” video I’ve watched features commercial aircraft crabbing them in.
I was taught to crab it down to the runway, then kick it out, flare, land. I was shown the slip method, but to me it was more difficult.
Auto-land. This young generation can’t land without it, or the company manual dictates they use auto-land under certain conditions.
A high angle of slip scares the hell out of the passengers and puts the wingtip dangerously close to the ground.