Childish? You're the one accusing me of being three people and questioning my piloting skill. Talk about childish.
LegacyDriver, you have a reputation! Many of us know about your "piloting skills." I'd prefer not to call your attributes "skills" though. That would be giving you too much credit.
Dude, I grew up in South Texas. I didn't land into the wind until I went to the Regionals. Any time, any day, you want to meet for a X-Wind landing competition I'm game. Loser pays a year's salary.
That sound risky, considering you need full rudder to land a Falcon 50EX in a crosswind! But, whose year salary does the loser pay? Mine or yours? I need to clarify this since it's a $80k difference or so.
An RJ needs to work all the time, in any weather, with any crosswind imaginable without jamming a rudder to the floor to do it. Falcon couldn't handle it.
2,500+ hrs in Falcons and I've never cancelled a trip. Do you remember why the Legacy wasn't at the big golf tournament up in Napa in 2006? Because it broke!
As for being the only pilot who says Falcons suck in X-Winds, etc.... Every pilot I have spoken to that has flown a *REAL* airplane (Embraer, Canadair, Gulfstream)--other than dyed in the wool Falcon junkies-- says the same as I do: Falcons are under-ruddered, overrated pieces of sh*t. Limitation on the Falcon 7X for X-Wind component is 23 knots.
WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USELESS.
That limitation will be changing. I suppose it's better than the limitation of "can't touchdown under load or aircraft will crack down the center."
Having landed an EMB with a 45-knot direct crosswind without even sweating I can tell you that I know how to do it. In a 50? Fat chance. Maybe if you sideload it and rip all the tires off.
I am not saying that the Embraer product won't land under a 45 knot crosswind and make the pilot look good. So the Falcon requires a pilot with a bit of skill, who cares? Just because one person doesn't have the skill to land the aircraft in a crosswind doesn't mean the airplane sucks.
What kind of moron designed the Falcon control system any way? You barely breathe on the damned yoke and the plane responds but to get the rudder to do *ANYTHING* you have to push it three times as far as on any other airplane.
Every airplane handles differently, and I think the 50EX handles pretty well.
When do you buy a new car do you say to yourself "What kind of moron designed this steering system? My old car required 3 turns of the wheel and still didn't turn very tight. At 1.5 turns, this car is already 180 degrees where it started from! It sure turns tight... piece of crap!"
Then again, Falcon has a history of under-ruddered airplanes. That's why they had to add rudder to the 50EX over the 50...and it still isn't enough. That's also why the 7X can barely keep the centerline on a 15-knot X-wind (Falcon is going back to the drawing board and adding additional nosewheel authority to the thing because it only has like three degrees and that ain't cutting it with the wimpy rudder).
Well, you're the first to report that from the several 7X pilots I've spoken to. How many hours do you have in the 7X?
Ever try an upwind engine failure at max demo crosswind in the sim in 50EX? Pretty dicey maneuver. My sim partner crashed three times before he got it right. (I got it right first time because I watched what he did wrong. Was still a near thing.)
Sure I've done that exercise many times. And I've never crashed. Your sim partner crashed three times? You know, just because someone doesn't fly the maneuver properly or well, it doesn't mean the airplane is crap. It may be time to look at the pilot.
Embraer? Hell, I had V1 Failures in the sim where I intentionally left the rudder neutral just to see what it did. All that happened was it flew with a crab.
It sounds like the regionals are/were a great place for you. Obviously, this corporate aviation field requires more skill than you possess. Oh well, at least you gave it the good 'ol college try.
