RAH E175 crosswind landing in ORD

Im wondering also how the camera angle is playing in on this. You can see after touch down that they pretty much track center line still and there isn't that huge swing of the tail after intial touchdown that would be required if they did land that crabbed. Looks worse than it was IMO.
 
MikeD said:
We used the chute for all landings in the 117, and it slows you the heck down quickly.
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In the video of the B-52, it seemed to weathervane a bit more into the wind after deployment of the chute. Did you ever notice that when landing with a strong crosswind?
 
unclassified said:
We used to use them often on our Learjets. Very effective braking.
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Those chutes are a pain to pack. I hope you took good care of your MX guys. I wanted to disassemble a line guy that popped one for no known reason while staging for a trip.
 
Not the worst cross wind landing ever, and we can all make mistakes. But if things could have done better what would you recommend?

I've always been harped on not to land crabbed, in all the aircraft I've flown.

@Kingairer I noticed that the pilot lands left of centerline and due to the crab the plane tracks across center line to the right before coming back to centerline.
 
If the 175 is certified to land in full crab up to the max X-Wind, it might not be ideal dry runway technique, but they got it down.

737 can be landed in crab up to max x-wind, but they suggest it's only a decent idea to stay crabbed on wet or contaminated runways where stopping is a big factor. Aircraft with winglets and snazzy wings tend to be an absolute bugger in gusty crosswinds. Boeing reckon the 738 is the worst handling aircraft they've made and that is a handful.

I can't comment anyway - I did a carrier landing on Friday onto a runway it turned out had a hump in the TDZ (no CL lights, dark, raining). Captain's only comment was "Just as well you bloody warned me you were in the Navy"
 
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