BillD22 Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 While taking some screenshots of some of my new "Black Friday" cut rate sale scenery purchases I noticed that the viewpoint perspective of this random shot gave a near perfect illustration of a crosswind landing. I had just jumped out of the VC to take an external shot In the shot an American Eagle ATR42 is on final to Runway 09 at Miami International (KMIA) - this is the Latin VFR FSX scenery of KMIA. I drew in some red arrows to show the motion vectors affecting the airplane. The ATIS reported wind was from 156 at 10 knots - which was the r/w wind at KMIA at the time using the OPUS FSX weather engine. That's a 66 degree crosswind to Runway 09. You can see the nose of the airplane is crabbed about 7-8 degrees to the right of the runway heading which exactly offset the left drift from the wind vector (right side red arrow) causing the airplane ground path to track dead center down the runway (straight ahead red arrow) - pretty cool intersection of the sim and real worlds :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Nice handling and capture of that crosswind approach Bill. :cool: :cool: :D Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamb Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Pretty cool indeed, great job!! :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omega7 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Something different to look at out the usual screen shot Bill, very nice presentation:cool::cool: Gonzalo [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Great job Bill, I like it :cool::cool::pilot: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aharon Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 great shot!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av8tor98 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Outstanding crosswind technique, Bill :) JOE- Asus P8Z68- V Pro; CPU: Intel i7-2600K 3.4ghz OC'd 4.6Ghz, 8G Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3-1600, EVGA 1080Ti 11G ACX Cooler Samsung 500G OS drive, 3 WD 1T Raptor HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillD22 Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share Posted November 26, 2014 Many thanks for looking and the good words guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfwright Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Don't you just love crabbing in a crosswind? Nice job with the landing. Excellent shot. Jim I am a King Air fan. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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