Strong crosswind landing

[Chucaro]

Nice video to watch
I was in that situation when coming from Port Macquarie to Sydney on one of those "crop dusters" Not very nice experience when you see that the plane approaches at 45 degrees to the runway.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP35ULU6IcQ"]Crosswind turboprop torment[/ame]

The Airbus have couple of good ones as well


Crosswind airbus anguish

[V8Ian]

Look up Manchester Airport, Arthur.

[JDNSW]

I saw a 737 do this at Canberra quite a few years ago.

John

[Bushie]

I used to sit in the fire control centre at S(KS)A and watch some of the landings when the strong August westerlies were blowing, the occasional one would make your hair curl and I'd have my finger poised over the crash alarm button.

Martyn

[BigBlackDog]

The white Q400 at 50 seconds looked like good technique, nose straight and forced the into wind wheel onto the ground. Clearly hard conditions. Even in no wind that runway looks hard with its nice flat surface
The last plane forgot to apply any technique by the looks! Haha. To be fair though, bloody hard to put a big plane in the deck I a straight line in that sort of stuff

[C00P]

We don't land crosswind in the Auster. If it's that strong, we land directly into wind across the runway....... going backwards

Coop

[JDNSW]

I can't remember where I saw it, but many years ago I saw a Helio Courier with Crosswind Landing Gear. This is effectively castering main wheels, allowing a crosswind landing and taxiing with the aircraft angled into wind rather than either sideslipping or changing heading at touchdown. Very spooky to watch!

John