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Civil / Airliner60 min lesson
Crosswind Landings
Land confidently in a gusty crosswind using either the crab-and-kick or wing-low method — without porpoising or floating down the runway.
About this lesson
Crosswind technique is timing, not theory. Your tutor sets up crosswind scenarios and calls out your rudder and aileron inputs until it clicks.
Why a human tutor? A guide explains "kick the rudder just before touchdown". Only a tutor can say "you kicked two seconds too early, try again".
What you'll learn
- ✓Crab vs wing-low — which and when
- ✓Decrab timing — the single hardest thing to get right
- ✓Maintaining centreline on touchdown
- ✓Using differential braking and rudder on rollout
- ✓When to go around — recognising an unstable crosswind approach
Prerequisites
- •Comfortable flying normal patterns
- •Rudder pedals strongly recommended
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Prep material
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