Originally Posted by
Ar Pilot
They're ribbing them for slamming hard. Nothing to do with their (proper) crabbed technique.
Negative. The comments were directed to both the hard landing and the PIO event that was bred from landing in a "severe crab". As the a/c touches down in the crab, the gear trucks are attempting to line up with the centerline (since the pilot didn't beforehand) then followed by late pilot rudder inputs to do the same but albeit a bit much. The PIO would not have been an event if, prior to touchdown, corrective rudder and complementary aileron were used.
I posted the vid simply to say landings like that must be the exception and not the rule. And while no doubt the aircraft are designed to withstand as much, limitations are NOT goals. Just because the aircraft can (land in a crab) doesn't mean you should.