I think Bob's right. The guy who posted this original note was clearly an airplane/Ercoupe afficionado trying to fit in by throwing around a little lingo. Nothing wrong with that, as long as nobody gets hurt... which it would be pretty hard to imagine happening with this comment. No one with any grasp of practical aerodynamics would add power to a crabbed landing, it just doesn't make sense.
Most likely this fellow was a passenger in a crosswind landing in a three-control airplane and watched the pilot bring it down to the runway in a crab, then straighten it out just before setting it down (burst of power to get slipstream on the rudder -- only the passenger wouldn't notice the rudder movement, only the burst of power). Ciao! --fj > I think the person who made the original comment about "fire-walling" >it was probably not a pilot and just jumped in here to talk with the >pilots and we all took it as though it was from one of us. Maybe I'm >wrong but I hope not, I'd hate to think that an experienced pilot would >make such a mistake. Let's all hope that he really isn't a pilot, >because I don't want to read about such a tragic manouver in the >accident section of any of the magazines. >
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