Uncontrolled Airport Traffic Patterns

[AA717driver]

Just out of curiosity, what is it that you're flying that requires power to land in a crosswind? I've never seen that.

Every jet aircraft that I have flown.

If you are in a crosswind, you are going to end up cross controlling (see crosswind thread from about a month ago...) right before touchdown. If you keep a touch of power on (no, I don't have a number, I just do "whatever it takes") until the upwind wheel touches, you'll negate the speed bleed when you come out of the crab.

That's why I never use A/T in a crosswind. They will screw you every time. I never use them anyway on landing (see the related thread on CaaM...).

I do agree that a student needs to be taught a proceedure to use as a reference point. I think h25b's point is that it must not be dogmatic and everyone has to tailor the proceedure to their own liking. Sometimes you have to return to the basic proceedure and start over in developing your own technique if you aren't successful initially.TC

P.S.--Re: airports whose ICAO I.D. begin with "U" or "Z". My position is and has always been !

 

[temcgrew]

The gentleman that I fly with says that the descent should not be started on the downwind leg being that we are now desending into the pattern altitude of the other smaller aircraft.

Well, by the time you are abeam the numbers if you don't know if there is a 152 below or a bit ahead of you, then we should be talking about communications in uncontrolled airports.