Originally Posted by
shdw
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You even up engines thrust along with use of rudder to center the aircraft before final touchdown. Not that this really matters since the drift you are referring to is countered by the crosswind, that is the designed purpose of this technique. Give the aircraft drift into the wind to avoid drift from the cross wind, hence needing less of a crab angle.
Oh my God I can't stand this.
IF YOU PULL THE DOWNWIND ENGINE ... which is what you STATED numerous times before, you will, and I repeat, WILL drift downwind, unless you counter this with some other type of input.
If the wind is from left to right (left crab into the wind), the downwind engine is the RIGHT ENGINE. If you pull the RIGHT engine, aircraft yaws to the right (decrease in crab angle INTO the wind) because of the higher thrust on the left engine, the horizontal thrust INTO the wind is reduced (because the aircraft is now at a lesser crab angle), and as a result, you DRIFT to the right.
In fact, the direction is indifferent to the overall situation at hand. If you are flying straight and level, and you pull the right engine, the aircraft will roll to the right and drift right. The SAME thing is going to happen to you if you are crabbed into the wind.
I fully understand that you are talking (typing) out both sides of your mouth.