Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Luscombe Crosswind Landing Video

I'm not sure who came up with the idea that a Luscomb is such a dragon to land. Who ever it was he must have been a Cherokee pilot on his first conventional gear landings. I've flown the 8A, along with the 7AC, J3, and the Baby Great Lakes. Each have their own particular foibles, but I found the 8A to be a pussy cat, and undeserving of the reputation it seems to have. By far the most challanging of the bunch is the Baby, it hates wheel landings, and is so short coupled and narrow track that you have to really keep on top of it. The video landing appears to have more crab than I think there was in actuallity due maianly to camera angle. Notice that it apppears that his taxi angle is sideways too. I'd say other than a slight skip he did just fine,, and how many of you actually grease every landing?

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "A. Censor" <acensor@...> wrote:
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> It's easy, and maybe unfair, to be a Monday morning quarterback (or in this case a one-the-ground pilot critic) but I do believe this pilot missed an important trick that should in my opinion be in the toolkit of all light aircraft with low stall/touchdown speeds when landing a strip with just one runway with heavy crosswinds:
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> Decades ago I was in the co-pilots seat in a Luscombe in an almost identical situation and airstrip with 25 to 30 mph winds directly across the only runway.
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> Keep in mind a Luscombe stalls (touches down) at only about 45mph.
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> Instead of trying to crab cross wind we just landed on the grass (this video shows the pilot had plenty of grass on both sides of the runway) DIRECTLY into the wind. Screw the runway.
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> Effective touch down speed was about 20 mph with NO crosswind to deal with. Rolled to a stop in less feet than it takes to park four cars.
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> Worth remembering, in my opinion, if ever in a similar spot.
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