BillD22 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) In these FS2020 shots an Azores Airlines A320 is landing at Santa Maria Airport (LPAZ) on the island of Santa Maria in the Azores using the real world weather for LPAZ today. [Click on the shots for a full screen view] Cleared to land on Runway 36. The tower reports the wind at 310/21 knots giving us a pretty good left crosswind. Checking our POH we see the A320 crosswind limit is 33 knots so should be no problem. Blowing from left to right in these shots the wind requires a 5-10 degree crab to the left all the way down to just before touchdown to keep our ground path lined up with the runway. In the landing gear shot you can see the windsock standing straight out as we're about to touchdown. At this point we'll take out the crab and put the nose on the centerline as we touch down. Touchdown and correcting to the right to follow centerline. Spoilers and reversers deployed. Welcome to beautiful Santa Maria! Edited February 7, 2021 by BillD22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djfierce Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Beautiful camera work Bill! Love crabbing, though I'm not all that great at it yet. - James Intel i7-10700F 2.9 gigahertz - 16GB Memory DDR4 3000 megahertz - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB - 480GB SSD + 1TB HDD - Windows 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJohnJohn Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Still did it! Great job Bill! Thermaltake Ryzen Gen 9 3900x 12 cores, 4.6 ghz 32 gig of Ram, Liquid Cooled Everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downwind66 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Very nice Bill! You make it look so easy! Great pics to go along with the storyline! Rick :cool::cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Nice Crab Bob!! That's not easy to do correctly! :eek: Michael Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Good work capturing crosswind approach and landing Bill. :cool: :) Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Beautiful camera work Bill! Love crabbing, though I'm not all that great at it yet. PRACTICE!! What's wonderful about a sim is you usually don't have to pay for your practice time. Nor for your mistakes while practicing!! Michael Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIDSTRAKA Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Those major x-wind landings are always fun, not! Nice job and great shots :pilot: Senior Rookie Bragware: FSX Gold - Acceleration | HP Omen Obelisk Desktop | Intel Core i7 3.2 Ghz |16GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | 1TB HD | 256 GB SSD (Gaming Computer) REX Worldwide Airports HD AS16 + ASCA ORBX Global BASE ORBX Freeware Airports ORBX HD Trees [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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