UPDATE
I wanted to share my experience early this morning as I?ve gotten more and more XW experience in my RV12.
Today I was able to explore what I think are the upper boundaries of XW?s in my 12. I had 160@41 KT, which presented about 35KT HW and 20.5KT XW in the pouring rain this morning. Aside from being crabbed about 15? to the right and just over 30KT ground speed, it was pretty much a non-event. I find that the rudder has plenty of authority to crab down to the runway and then kick the nose around into alignment and set the upwind gear onto the runway. I then let the left gear down to the runway, set the nose down and then pretty much came to a stop after that without any brakes. I had to power up to get to the turnoff and then had to use power and brakes to finagle my way to the tie-down.
My fellow commuter was laughing and joked that it seemed like an ?austin powers? getaway scene taking so long to get to the runway.
All in all, I?d say that?s about on verge of a limit for the airplane. I think it could handle a couple more knots XW for the landing, but taxiing sucked.
Afterward, I noted that the rain did an excellent job shining up the aluminum.
Separately, there was windshear at 2000? indicated at 55KT; coming down through that was, shall we say, ?bumpy?. 90KIAS worked well, and the stick and rudders got a great work out too. The TAF for tomorrow is a little better with less rain, should be another fun ride.
I wanted to share my experience early this morning as I?ve gotten more and more XW experience in my RV12.
Today I was able to explore what I think are the upper boundaries of XW?s in my 12. I had 160@41 KT, which presented about 35KT HW and 20.5KT XW in the pouring rain this morning. Aside from being crabbed about 15? to the right and just over 30KT ground speed, it was pretty much a non-event. I find that the rudder has plenty of authority to crab down to the runway and then kick the nose around into alignment and set the upwind gear onto the runway. I then let the left gear down to the runway, set the nose down and then pretty much came to a stop after that without any brakes. I had to power up to get to the turnoff and then had to use power and brakes to finagle my way to the tie-down.
My fellow commuter was laughing and joked that it seemed like an ?austin powers? getaway scene taking so long to get to the runway.
All in all, I?d say that?s about on verge of a limit for the airplane. I think it could handle a couple more knots XW for the landing, but taxiing sucked.
Afterward, I noted that the rain did an excellent job shining up the aluminum.
Separately, there was windshear at 2000? indicated at 55KT; coming down through that was, shall we say, ?bumpy?. 90KIAS worked well, and the stick and rudders got a great work out too. The TAF for tomorrow is a little better with less rain, should be another fun ride.