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Originally Posted by Lady Speedbird
The T7 is an excellent airctaft and in my 11 years on it I never felt uneasy. However, the 777 loses quite alift after a sudden decrab manoeuvre. It lacks stability in lateral wing loading of the outboard engine. It's got a long wheel base and combined with what I said about sudden decrabbing it can lead to a heavy landing, although it's hardly the case, it just feels that way. It also tends to overflare if you're not carefull and to avoid a bad landing durind X-Wind you need all the drift you can get. I won't continue, it will be too technical. I stand by my professional opinion that it's an excellent machine, it just has some quirks.
It doesn't 'overflare'...that's a result of the pilot's input.
You "need all the drift yoiu can get" in a crosswind? I've done, or watcher FO's do, plenty of nice crosswind landings. I forget the exact number but I think the 777-200 can do full wing low technique up to 32(??) kts of crosswind? That means only on the very rare occasion of crosswinds exceeding 32 kts do you need to use any crab. Max for us was 38 kts so at worst you'd need to crab for 6 kts of crosswind. Drift is the exact opposite of what you want in a crosswind landing. Alignement with the runway, enough wing low to offset lateral drift from the crosswind, and the airplane lands tracking straight. Any drift or crab shakes the aircraft from slightly to fairly harshly at greater crab or drift values.
Every airplane with wing mounted engines has an 'outboard' engine.
The 777 is literally a big teddy bear and a great airplane to produce great landings including, or especially in, crosswinds.
Yeah, no technical stuff for other pilots to read.