✪ BMS 4.32 F-16 Falcon "22Kt CrossWind Landing Tutorial"
12Personally I experienced alot of difficulty with crosswind landings in the F-16 cause I was trying to use the traditional slip method. This doesn't work and purposely landing in a crab is counter intuitive to pilots. Your always taught to point the nose straight down the runway. The crab still requires a normal flare and will produce tremendous side loading in the aircraft causing The wobble. Again, this is normal. There's a reason why the falcon has a 25 knot limit.
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"I was talking to one of our pilots on a similar day and he said that they land crabbed into the wind all the way through the touchdown and roll out. A normal (not so badass) plane dips the upwind wing and counters with the rudder to keep the plane on the centerline, landing on one wheel but straight down the runway. The pilot said the Viper cant do this because it loses too much lift with its small wings and they run the risk of hitting the missile on stations 1 or 9. So they just land crabbed and stay that way throughout the roll out and "wobble" down the runway until the nose wheel comes down."
"Our -1 for the block 10 and 15 MLU states that the maximum cross wind for landing is 25 knots on a dry runway. It feels weird to land in a crab the first time but you get used to it. Once you touch down you maintain the centerline with the rudder. With 25 knots of cross wind the flightpath marker is outside the hud field of view and we therefore use the drift cut out switch."
"Salute!
Unless lots has changed, Viper best landed in a crab versus wing-low. Mainly due to the aileron-rudder interconnect.
So two short war stories:
1) Landed at Nellis one day with max crosswind per the flight manual, and I think the tower dudes were fudging a bit to get us down.
Flight path marker was off to one side with the big "x" thru it. Landed in crab and rolled out just fine
2) When they put the "big tail" on our Bk 10's, we IP's went up in family models to get a feel for the new tail.
So the other IP and I decided to try a "wing-low" slip to landing. I mean, what the hell!
Trust me, not smart, or recommended.
Mains touch and aileron-rudder-interconnect cuts out and WHAHOOOO!
We kept the thing from skidding off the runway or rolling, then regained control.
that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. out,"
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