Strong Winds Push Aircraft Off the Runway / Continental Airlines Flight 1404
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What's the Wind on a Cross Wind Take Off?
Air traffic control cleared the flight to enter the runway and hold. A minute later, air traffic control informed the pilots that the wind was still coming from the west at 27 knots. Normally what happens is, you know, when you're taken off like this and you get hit with a cross wind, you just give the plane a little bit of rudder to compensate for this. So even though the right rudder input peaked at 15 cent it was then reduced to 15%. And the flight data recorder recorded a left control wheel input, 50 to 15, 88 to 15 %. They're letting off the rudder, is what you can infer from that. As they accelerate id through 55 knots
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