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Originally Posted by dmorrison
For a crosswind my aircraft has a 30Kt "demonstrated" croswind. They design the aircraft with a rudder for 3 reasons. 1, you need a control on the yaw axis if you want complete control of the aircraft. 2, in a multi engine aircraft, you need the rudder to counteract the yaw tendency if you loose an engine. and 3, during a crosswind landing ( the wind is perpendicular to the runway) you use cross controls to align the aircraft with the runway.
Now in the New York airport area the flight patterns for all three major airports (LGA, EWR, JFK) is complicated. When the runways are changed at one airport it effects which runways can be used at the other airports due to the arriving and departing flight paths.
Dave
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Incredible! So if it's this complicated to keep a big plane on course and oriented correctly, could somebody explain it to me again how a bunch of terrorists with no real flight experience, and with navigation transponders switched off, managed to hit three targets so accurately on 9-11? The Pentagon one is especially mind-boggling as it needed such a long run-in at nearly ground level. Who was doing such a good job at compensating for wind direction on that one?
