Crosswind landing technique

[rookie1255]

Traditional method would be a side slip for wind corection. However, I've heard that for the Super Petrel better to not dip the wing much, just use rudder to maintain runway alignment and accept some side load on landing, with most of the drift going away in ground effect. Is this what others have experienced?

[Ron Stock]

The landing gear is not designed to handle side load very well. More likely to have an issue. I slip all the time especially if the plane does not want to descend. Where did you hear that it should not be slipped or the wind dipped?

[rookie1255]

The landing gear is not designed to handle side load very well. More likely to have an issue. I slip all the time especially if the plane does not want to descend. Where did you hear that it should not be slipped or the wind dipped?

It was with another pilot who was worried about how low the plane sits on the gear and a concern for having the wing low in a side slip all the way down for landing. It seemed reasonable to me with a low wing aircraft and being relatively close to the ground on landing vs a high wing Cessna.

[Ron Stock]

Clearly you would need to straighten out near the ground, but that does not preclude you using a slip to bring the plane down closer to the runway or water.

[rmziegler]

The Super Petrel handles a crosswind just fine. Preferred method is to crap the aircraft, pointing into the wind so the actual aircraft track is remaining in centerline. Once the aircraft approaches the round out us rudder to align the aircraft straight down the centerline and put the wing down into the wind to stop any drift from pushing the aircraft to the downwind side of the runway. There is little to no possibility of hitting the upwind wing or sponson. “Slipping” the aircraft during a crosswind allows for to many unbalanced parameters and I have never seen anyone consistently land the Super Petrel on speed and on centerline in a crosswind.