 Cross Wind
Dudley Henriques wrote:
> "Jon" <tremainejonm> wrote in message
> news:1176902145.976670.130410@y5g2000hsa. ...
> > I'm getting close to solo but my instructor is still not satisfied
> > with my cross wind landings. He has me doing a bank and keeping my
> > nose straight and holding altitude. I know it must be important
> > because he keeps doing it and tells me its for cross wind landings.
> > Anyone else doing this?
> > Jon
> >
>
> It will benefit you right off the bat if you stop thinking about crosswind
> landings as a separate skill to be learned. The fact is that almost every
> landing you will ever perform will have at least some crosswind component
> attached to it. It is actually quite rare that absolutely no crosswind
> correction is needed on a landing; even if the wind is basically right down
> the runway.
I had similar problems to Jon till one day one of my instructors said
exactly your words to me Dudley and it all made sense. In retrospect
my fear was based on the premise that I had already learned to land
the aircraft, and now I was being taught to land it all over again
except this time I had to do things differently, and I had no idea how
different the "new" landing technique was going to be. Being told
that every landing is a crosswind landing meant that no only what I
had learnt so far was relevant, but I had already been doing
crosswind landings for some time. That made me lose my fear of them
and from then on it was a piece of cake. |