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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RVCooper" data-source="post: 3075004" data-attributes="member: 30297">These things can handle more crosswind than you can imagine. Crab in to the wind and plant it on the mains, still in a crab.Its a trailing-link main gear so the airplane pivots around straight ahead once you've touched down. Plant the nose wheel right after because you cant steer it until you do. There's not enough up elevator travel to keep the nose up for long anyhow. In proper rig, the airplane sits on the ground with a negative angle of attack so it will run along the ground at a good clip and wont fly. I have heard my nose wheel squealing on pavement during a cross-wind takeoff before but its not there for long, at least. Kinda weird though!Saw a youtube once of somebody landing in what looked like every bit of a 60 degree crab. wish I could find it again. That was some breeze. Some of the guys in the owners club claim they can do it in a 45kt. direct. Id buy a ticket to watch that. And mine lives on a grass strip which makes us look better anyway! The biggest scare I've had is getting too slow close to the ground. Those short wings sink! And as I mentioned, little travel in the up elevator to save your patooty. Airspeed is life.</blockquote>