OK the heavier aircraft, I've flown the B-727 a little over 20 years, and am just coming up on 2 years on the A-300. We were taught, (and it works) to crab down final, and at the last 100 to 200 feet to transition into a slip for touchdown. However, that does not work well on the DC-8 or so my friends tell me. On that aircraft, with the larger CFM-56 engines, if you bank over about 6 degrees, you would catch a pod. So on the -8, you crabbed and "kicked" the airplane straight just during the flare. It is a different view in these aircraft during the crab phase, as some of the longer-fuselage aircraft, when the main landing gear is centered on the runway, the nose will be over the weeds.
Bill Zorc KR-2.5 Corvair project Vero Beach, FL
