Wat is cross wind landing?

Question

wat is a cross wind landing, is this same dangrous in passenger jets and airforce bombers,,,,, how pilots deal with it,,, how should passengers avoid the dangours in cross wind landinga.......

Answer 1

chito's definition is good.

A cross-wind landing presents the same danger to large and small planes. There are 3 ways to deal with it:
1. Crabbing--flying into the wind enough to maintain groundspeed along the runway. Just before touch-down the pilot must turn the plane to the runway direction. This is obviously good only for small crosswinds, and is rarely used by large planes.
2. Banking or side-slipping--banking the aircraft into the wind while maintaining a heading directly down the runway. This is the most often method employed by commercial and military pilots. Obviously, the plane has to be leveled before touchdown to prevent catching a wingtip. This method, too, has a limiting crosswind speed.
3. Aborting the landing in favor of another airfield with a runway more closely aligned to wind direction. When this option is unavailable, things can become very dicey, indeed.

Passengers can do little or nothing in such situations except remain seated. Balance of the aircraft can easily become critical. If the landing is an emergency landing, you will be instructed as to crash positions.

Answer 2

Where the wind is blowing at an angle to the runway. Pilots deal by either an offset approach or by "crabbing" (correcting angle for the wind). Larger aircraft with more interia don't need as large a correction angle than smaller aircraft (sum of vectors)

Answer 3

A crosswind landing is a landing maneuver in which a significant component of the prevailing wind is perpendicular to the runway centerline.

For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswind_landing

Answer 4

Video demonstration of #1 above ^^"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TDnMC_nagc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pIVjKoUewc