noticed in some videos wide bodied aircraft handle crosswinds? they'd crap all the way to touch down but would land on one main gear first, rudder straight, then the other, and finally the nose gear comes down. is this intentional or what?
2007-02-06 02:33:45 · 15 answers · asked by Snail 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
There are several different ways to land wide bodies. One is to remain crabbed all the way to touchdown and let the aircraft's inertia straighten the plane out once you touch down.
The preferred way however is to decrab the aircraft just before touchdown by using rudder to align the aircraft with the runway centreline. Once that's achieved, you will have to lower the upwind wing to avoid being blown downwind of the runway. This is why you'll usually see the upwind main gear(s) touch down first.
2007-02-06 03:40:36 · answer #1 · answered by fozz b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No that is not normal. But it is acceptable. If both landing gears thouch the ground togheter will cause less stress to the body of the aircraft. The correct way to compensate the wind is put the nose against it enougth to keep path alined with the runway and correct it before touchdown. As these type of aircrafts have a engine under the wings it is not recomended to put a wing down on a landing situation. Normaly it acours because is to dificult to have this level of control in a windy situations.
2007-02-06 04:26:02 · answer #2 · answered by Entenda a História 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is normal to land with the windward wing down and the landing gear alligned with the runway. This is called a forward slip. Otherwise the side impact would snap off the landing gear. It is not as noticable on a large airplane because the crosswind has a less relative effect.
2007-02-06 03:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by JimK 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, in a heavy crosswind. Have seen a video with a 747 doing it, think it was in China, can't remember. But it looked so bad at first you thought it was a crash video. Pretty neat how they handled it.
2007-02-06 09:38:09 · answer #4 · answered by JET_DOC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See it most days with civillian aircraft. Especially in crosswinds. Can't say i've ever seen the likes of fast jets do it though.
2007-02-06 09:17:47 · answer #5 · answered by Shortie545 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is normal in a crosswind landing situation. Go here and see some cool crosswind landings.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-35782284592130905&q=crosswind+landings
2007-02-06 06:16:26 · answer #6 · answered by Max Power 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And crabbing is one method of handling crosswinds. Slipping is another, and then there's the combination method.
2007-02-06 06:18:13 · answer #7 · answered by Leopold 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a crosswind,yes!!
2007-02-06 10:40:20 · answer #8 · answered by knot_your_daddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you should land with a wing down futher in the direction of the wind
2007-02-06 04:59:36 · answer #9 · answered by cowboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is normal...the landing gear are designed to be able to land that way (any idea how hard it would be to make sure the plane is perfectly level for landing?) sure there are limits but the wing would probably hit before the limit was reached
2007-02-06 02:43:11 · answer #10 · answered by kerfitz 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋