Originally Posted by
johnso29
I'm fairly certain the flight controls don't go into direct law until ground contact. Unless you're in alternate law, then the flight controls go to direct law when the gear is dropped.
Personally I don't even add rudder until 20 ft or lower. It's all crab until then.
The change to flare mode occurs at 50' RA and it affects only pitch, not lateral control.
Airbus FCOM 1.27.20 Page 6-
"When the aircraft is in 'Flare' mode, the lateral control is the same as in 'in flight' mode."
Maybe it is due to my limited brain capacity, but I have found personally that it took five or six good crosswind landings to feel it out, and once I stopped thinking about what laws the airplane was in and just began to feel how the airplane was responding to my inputs I was able to get consistent decent crosswind landings.