Procedures - P-330

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CHAPTER SEVEN

When landing, in order to remain on the desired approach path, the aircraft must slip back

into the wind at the same rate that the wind is trying to move it away from the landing line.

The wing-low attitude must be maintained as long as the crosswind is apparent. If the

effect of the crosswind is reduced, this crosswind correction must also be reduced or the

aircraft will begin slipping too much into the wind and away from its flight path. The

crosswind landing approach is not a set angle of bank and rudder pressure. Several factors

will change as the aircraft makes its final descent towards the runway, such as airspeed,

turbulence (associated with thermal heating or from nearby buildings), power and wind

velocity and magnitude. The wind will most likely change as the aircraft crosses the tree

line and then again near the surface of the runway. With all these factors changing rapidly,

the pilot must constantly react to the conditions and maintain runway centerline with the

longitudinal axis of the aircraft aligned with the runway.

On the straightaway and throughout the landing, keep the longitudinal axis aligned with the

landing line regardless of the amount of crosswind correction being used. Sit straight in the

cockpit. Do not lean away from or towards the low wing. Remember, the fundamental

concept behind the wing-low drift correction method is to counteract the drift and keep the

longitudinal axis aligned with the landing line.

Procedures

Maintain crosswind correction through the landing transition.

Increase aileron pressure as necessary to land the aircraft with zero side motion.

Landing will be made on the upwind mount first.

Maintain crosswind corrections to minimize weather vaning and lower the nose

gently to the runway.

Full-stop landing may require increased corrections as the airplane decelerates.

For touch-and-go landings:

Hold in crosswind controls throughout ground roll.

ii.

Firmly rotate the aircraft to the takeoff attitude.

Common Errors

Landing with any side motion.

Landing in a crab.

Not holding in corrections while on the runway.

Not crabbing upwind, causing a drift from runway centerline.

710.

WAVEOFF (GO-AROUND)

Description. The waveoff is a set of standard procedures used to effect the safe

discontinuation of an approach.

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