I considered it after probably my 20th attempt to do it from the correct approach and getting only a silver.

Well I have certainly tried way more than 20 attempts, at first I only had the bronze, managed to get the silver last night, kept trying and just could not get the gold. I will have to give it a try your way and see what happens.Thanks for the info,

All real aircraft have a crosswind limit, which for the real RV-6A I believe it's 15 knots.

All aircraft have a max tested crosswind landing. That doesn't mean that the plane is actually limited to that number. It just means that during official development, testing, certifications, etc that is the max safe crosswind speed that they landed the plane at.If you're low on fuel and may not make it to the next airport then this scenario is definitely plausible and safer than just trying to get to the next airport without enough fuel.it definitely should be #6 though....not #2.

Are you telling me, that you managed to land that RV from the other direction, and get the gold, in a 26-29 knot tailwind for the most part??

+1Haven't got the gold yet, but landing with a tail wind gets me a perfect 500/500 for side skid every single time. But soft landing is another story. So I managed to get sliver lading both direction, but lost points for side skid with headwind and soft landing with tailwind.

Yeah silver is still the best I have gotten,was not able to get the gold trying from the opposite direction either.Took another little break from that challenge, I will re-visit it here before long.

As you can see, Gold is definitely possible.I will tell you that I did this going into the wind and without exceeding any A/C limitations and although my method was a bit unorthodox, it definitely mirrored RW technique.I don't want to spoil it for anyone yet, just show it is possible so I won't say anymore for now.

Oh I fully intend to get the gold for this challenge believe me - I am stubborn that way - I will be making what undoubtedly will be many more attempts, just have to take a break around every 100 attempts or so. :biggrin:Congrats on getting the gold on this one Erick! Anyone that gets it on this challenge can hold their head very high, as it is a true accomplishment - BIG accomplishment.

I made it using no flaps and keeping the approach around 90kts. Any less and I found the rudder became too draggy and I got on the wrong side of the power curve and stayed to sink to fast. The runway is long enough to come in with the extra speed that I needed to keep control.

I made it using no flaps and keeping the approach around 90kts. Any less and I found the rudder became too draggy and I got on the wrong side of the power curve and stayed to sink to fast. The runway is long enough to come in with the extra speed that I needed to keep control.

Interesting approach to the approach :smile:I will have to keep that in mind and give it a try that way, when I start to giving it a try again, on my next few attempts at it.Thanks for sharing how you got it, and congrats on getting the gold!

Might try that as well... The standard rule of thumb for approach speed that I learned in training was stall speed*1.5+half the wind speed, and this is a pretty windy approach... That's with gliders, though, they have more problems in strong winds - you need a lot of aileron authority to keep a wing up if the wind wants to push it down!

I made it using no flaps and keeping the approach around 90kts. Any less and I found the rudder became too draggy and I got on the wrong side of the power curve and stayed to sink to fast. The runway is long enough to come in with the extra speed that I needed to keep control.

That's how I did it, too. Plenty of extra speed without flaps. With winds like that (around a 20kt crosswind component is what I calculated. It looked to me to be about 45 degrees off the nose at 29 kts) you'll need to keep the speed up to maintain good airflow over the control surfaces. The headwind component is also around 20 kts so keeping the speed up above normal will not affect your landing distance too much. I also flattened out the approach more than usual to maintain a more constant power setting.