Huh? Airlines fly with a crab until just prior to touchdown, then switch to wing down top rudder at the bottom. That's what he did, and when he tried to transition - you can see how strong the wind was...Its obvious he didn't say out loud "wing down top rudder."
Huh? Airlines fly with a crab until just prior to touchdown, then switch to wing down top rudder at the bottom. That's what he did, and when he tried to transition - you can see how strong the wind was...
Not necessarily. Crabs get kicked out in the flare all the time. You just have to make sure your technique is right.However, that guy was WAY too late in transitioning into a wing down top rudder.
Huh? Airlines fly with a crab until just prior to touchdown, then switch to wing down top rudder at the bottom....
That shouldn't be surprising. The crab would have decreased lift on the right wing. That rapid of a removal of the crab should have added a lot of lift (big wing) to the right side. So, everything happened just like one should expect. Obviously the guys in the cockpit were not expecting it or they would have been countering with aileron or something...To me it seems that when he kicked out the crab, the wings very briefly went level and then the wrong (left) wing went down. He then hit the right wing tip when he was trying to correct.
One more thing about the approach in this link: the guy should NEVER have made his play for the centerline when/as he did -- and don't say: "well, you weren't there", first -- 'cause that kind of attitude-stuff doesn't cut it -- and second -- 'cause I instructed it, and I was "there", many, many times over a 40 year flying career .... i.e., once @ GUM w/ 60 knots variable quartering X-winds on the backside of a typhoon (not X-wind component) that turned out to be a quartering TAILWIND during the ADF-to-visual approach ...