November 10, 2004

Wellesbourne Airport

Follow-up to Lesson 7 Landing Approaches from Christine's Flying blog

Circuit Diagram for Wellesbourne

I forgot to add in my original posting that when taking off from Coventry there was a strong crosswind. The crosswind takeoff means that the ailerons are ‘moved into the wind’ i.e cross wind from the right move control column to the right. As speed increase during take-off run the central column is slowly centralised so that at the actual point of take off wings are level


Christine Smith : 10 Nov 2004 10:11 |  Tags:  |  Comments (1) |  Trackbacks (1) |  Report a problem

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  1. Steve Rumsby

    The crosswind takeoff means that the ailerons are 'moved into the wind'

    Why is that, then? I've done some take-offs with a cross wind and all I did was steer into the wind with the nosewheel & rudder.

    Do you get increased lift on the windward side, so you have to tweak the ailerons to compensate? Sounds plausible…

    10 Nov 2004, 12:08

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  1. More about crosswind takeoffs

    all I did was steer into the wind if you have a significant crosswind (greater than 10 kts) cutting accross the runway I&rsquo;m not sure how to steer into the wind enough to offset its effect <img src="/images/csmith/2004/1...

    Christine's Flying blog - 10 Nov 2004, 12:52

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