Greetings!


Enclosed you should have found six different missions. A right and left crosswind 
blowing at 10, 20 and 40 mph. As I mentioned in the SimHq posting, I set up an
allied tank to destroy several hostile fuel trucks so the smoke would be a great
representation of the prevailing winds. Place them in the /Missions folder anywhere
you'll be able to find them.

My suggestions for successful cross-wind landings;

-keep a little extra speed (except when approaching short runways). Somewhere in the
5 to 10 knot extra range. As you flare, the slight extra speed will help in the
control authority (and of course IRL, we keep extra speed for the possibility of
windshear).

-try to nail the crab angle BEFORE you're on short final. 5 miles out (or what we 
used to call the "outer marker") is a good place to have it figured out. Certainly
by the 3 mile range.

-try transitioning from the "crab" to the "slip" at varying HATs (height above touch
down) and see what feels right for you. As I mentioned, some folks do it at 100' AGL,
I prefer lower.

-attempt to be as smooth as you can when you transition. Lower the wing into the wind
as you're adding opposite rudder. Too much, too quickly is as bad as too little, too
late. Remember, the objective is to be ON THE RUNWAY CENTERLINE, nose parrellel to
said centerline, and touching down on the "upwind" main landing gear first.

-if you're not liking what you see, go full thrust, flaps 1/2, gear up (at a positive
rate of climb) and miss the approach. The first student I soloed when I was a brand
new Flight Instructor back in 1977, went missed approach on her first THREE landing 
attempts! Needless to say I was a bit concerned, and when I asked her on the radio 
if everything was "OK", her response was just that..."you always told me to miss the 
approach and try it again if I wasn't satisfied with the way things were looking...
so I did." Her next 3 landings were superb.

Good luck and HAVE FUN!

Bill