Normal & Crosswind Approach & Landing - Lesson 1

I consided significant x-wind when the nose is 45° off track during final and you see the runway trough the side windows.

Look easy but need more hour in training

Great video!!!

Thanks superb lesson vry explicit kippidap mate

Personally, I think this is the best explanation regarding using visual reference of the runaway length to determine the descending height and what decision to be made accordingly. This is the crucial point that many other tutorials overlook or don't explain clearly. Good job!

This is sooo much better than sportys

I've been flying single engine planes for 20 years with over 1000 hrs logged. I decided to watch this. What has become 2nd nature for me was described in beautiful detail and I even learned some of the "why-s" that I didn't know before (or forgot)!! ;-) Great video! For those of you just starting out, don't worry...you'll get there!!

How do you crab toward the wind ? Do you use rudder or aileron ?

The best vido ever I have seen for PPL training and a fantastic presentation of safe landing,thank you so much

This is a certified hood classic

There is so much here, a lot to remember. Fortunately, some of it is intuitive.

I should've found this video before I start the landing traninig. It's really valuable video. Thank you for the animation

very helpful. thank you!

Thank you so much! A cadet Pilot here. God bless you

That seal killed me 🤣

Excellent explanation

The Crosswind Landing technique is incorrect. The rudder to keep the aircraft parallel to the centerline all the way till after landing. Opposite aileron to keep the aircraft from drifting. The Inaccuracies in this video is this: As you are nearing landing for a constant crosswind, the rudder pressure will be increasing as the aircraft becomes slower and slower. The aileron actually will be slowly coming out, NOT INCREASING. If you keep it the same or increase it as this video says, you will start to drift. Adding the rudder causes the fuselage to be angled into the wind which produces lift in the direction of applied rudder. You counter this lift force with Lift from the wing in the opposite direction (aileron). As you get slower and slower, you increase the rudder to keep the aircraft parallel to the centerline but the lift force from the fuselage will actually decrease in magnitude. Since this force decreases, you will need to decrease the lift force from the ailerons and you do this by decreasing the aileron pressure as you get slower and slower.

Brilliant video. Thank you for that.

Better video can't be possible 👌👌

Just got to this channel on its 10th birthday!

the best way to land in a cross wind is to turn on final up wind

Excellent

Nice presentation. Very well presented. Thanks for sharing.

The seal killed me 😂

You can hold one wing low just stay a little on some throttle

never gets to boring, put one landing on an aircraft carrier or an approach on elevated landing strip

I absolutely love your videos I keep learning new things every single time

Perfect explanation of how to make a technically correct crosswind landing!! My only comment is to remove the crab a little earlier than what you said so that the pilot can figure out how much aileron and rudder to use. An earlier crab will also tell the pilot if the crosswind is out of limits for a safe landing. I have been a current and active CFI for the past 52 years and have 4,000 hours of tailwheel time including 3,000 hours in the Beech 18 and DC-3, many of those hours teaching crosswind landings. Unbelievably, the FAA Flying hand book recommends a maintaining the crab until just prior to touchdown, then leveling the wings and land before the airplane starts drifting. This is physically impossible and can easily lead to an accident!! You totally debunked this kick out and land technique. Thank you SO much for telling pilots precisely how to make a technically correct crosswind landing.

What is that Airport??

Excellent video!

You are 90% correct. If you are to high on the approach reduce power only do not lower nose because it will increase airspeed and then you will have to slow the plane down increasing workload. In high winds of 70 to 80 knots the tower may let you land on a taxi way if the wind favors it in an emergency.

The seal 😂

I believe from experience the majority of landings I make are crosswind even though runways are primarily aligned with prevailing winds. It’s such a critical skill I see even 100 hour pilots failing to understand or use!

this would have been useful 15 years ago... Great video! Go ERAU!

You missed !!

The best X wind instruction we've seen to date !
Short course is:
Ailerons are the LARGEST control on the plane & the LEAST understood !!! Ailerones ROLL to make turns, BANK to control DRIFT over runway, then provide directional control on roll out with AILERON yaw, as the wee little rudder stalls as relative wind shifts to the airport Xwind.
Cheers R Fuchs CFI 1507987

Oh man this wouldve saved me like 200 lives in dcs.

I always subconsciously knew take off is easy by landing is quite challenging. This proved me right. Such expensive aircraft landing is so complicated huh

Landings the best part... love it ..
A nightmare for lots of new pilots
Great video ... Tks for sharing.

I wish my CFA would have explained me this way before landing the first time, instead of yelling all the time…

Excellent video!!!!

Great video! The only thing wrong is power should be used for controlling rate of descend and pitch for speed.

No mention of ground fright.

KOOL