Re: Asymmetrical thurst

"Jim Carter" <jim.carter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Watching the videos of the heavies crabbing to a landing in high cross 
> winds
> prompts me to ask: why don't they use asymmetrical thrust instead of
> kicking it straight in the flare?
>
> Even in a single, why don't we see more forward slips to a landing
instead
> of crab, kick, and pray?

I see no reason to pray.  There's little difference in out come with the 
crab technique or the forward slip.  One you put the plane in a slip early

and keep constant control pressures thru-out your approach and the other
you 
put the plane in a crab, relax your control inputs and put the plane in a 
slip in the last 10 seconds or so.  Either the plane has enough rudder 
authority or it doesn't in either situation.  Neither is superior IMO and 
definitely neither makes one a super pilot over the other.  Seems to be 
personal preference.

If you are proficient at one of these techniques you've got it covered.  I

don't think that there is any situation when one of these crosswind
landing 
techniques is the preferred and only safe way to land over the other.

Kobra