First, on your approach, you want to "crab" your aircraft into the wind direction. That is, use rudder to to turn your aircrafts nose into the direction of wind while using ailerons to maintain a straight track to the runway. Usually come out of crap and straigten nose above runway threshold. The rollout is all done by the rudder, not your nosewheel steering. This is a difficult task and completely normal to mess up your first few times.

My crosswind approach rwy 23 visual in Madeira.... rudder, joke and throttle ...

Happy Landings,FRancesco

I believe that ground roll has its limitations in FSX. Crosswind effects on a rolling aircraft are exaggerated and it is difficult to keep the nose straight on the taxiway centre line at all, even in moderate crosswinds while rolling at lower speeds. There seems to be very little lateral friction modelled...Andrew

I believe that ground roll has its limitations in FSX. Crosswind effects on a rolling aircraft are exaggerated and it is difficult to keep the nose straight on the taxiway centre line at all, even in moderate crosswinds while rolling at lower speeds. There seems to be very little lateral friction modelled...Andrew

I think so too Andrew. I tried more and more crosswind landing testing sistem Simulator and commands sensitivity and I found very hard to keep the nose linedup to the centreline and also when on the ground also because you dont feel, as in the real life, the aircraft under your,... 'back' ;-)Cheers,Francesco

Keeping the plane on the centerline in crosswind situations after landing is sometimes not possible for me.Francesco: How do you perform such wonderful roll outs.

Although I am not Francesco, you have to find the sweet spot of rudder / tiller steering pressure to counteract the yaw caused by the crosswind. This combined with fsx' strange lateral friction modelling of the gear makes it impossible to keep on centreline while taxiing in any winds with s crosswind component of more than a few knots. Andrew

Also in the real world aircraft, the crosswind causes a roll tendency raising the upwind wing. Would be nice if this was well simulated. It's fairly easy to maintain center line as long as you keep in the crosswind controls. More initially during take-off, then you relax the controls a tad as you gain speed. basically the reverse after landing as you lose speed. Some planes with tail mounted engines get a little touchy during the landing as the ground spoilers and reverse thrust blank out the controls requiring more input. That's when rudder pedal steering helps. The G-3 is a monster during high crosswind landings because the thrust reverses open at different rates and blank out the rudder, there is no rudder pedal steering, ground spoilers override your roll assist spoilers, and the plane weather-vanes like crazy. As you struggle down the runway you have to transfer the yoke to the co-pilot so that you can switch to the sloppy tiller approaching 80kts. I've been nervous a few times with new guys landing from the left side in heavy crosswinds. Twice I've had to stomp on a brake pedal because the pilot flying pushed my comfort level by drifting to far towards the edge. I'm glad I don't fly that beast any more.