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Old 05-31-2010 | 08:45 AM
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johnso29
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Originally Posted by NEDude
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.
Thanks for the recurrent. Guess I'd better brush up on my systems.

And I agree, you can't think about the laws. It took me a couple months, but I've got a good x-wind technique down. Flare around 50ft, no rudder until 5-10 ft & it'll roll right on.
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