How to handle 20Kt Crosswinds in the J3 Cub (and how I Stopped myself from potentially Groundlooping 

Great video! I can still hear my dad say, " Stay on the pedals and stick all the way back." Nothing like a J-3!! ❤

This and Trent ❤ best two channels on RU-vid. And add Jeb Corliss and it would be as great as drinking a beer with the actual Red Baron ❤❤❤❤

Glad to see another Cub Pilot that can handle crosswinds!

Geez I'm glad you make these videos. REALLY helpful, Joe.

Wow Joe, best video on crosswind landings I've seen. Thank you!

Thanks Joe. Brilliant visuals and advice. What a great topic for light aircraft pilots! I really liked how you discussed the various landing types and what to do. One of your best ever videos!! Loved it.

Good Video and good crosswind technique, the verbal instruction was very concise and helpful. Crosswind landings are always a bit of a challenge in a tail wheel airplane, and very satisfying to do good ones. I am very impressed how you always stayed on the centerline. I have a sweet Champ with a C85-8. It loves to fly.

Thx for posting this vid Sport Pilot with 70+ hours and Im still working on being more comfy in the crosswind landings. It helps a lot!

There is just something about a Cub! Wow!

Thanks Joe for the heads ups on not getting into a Ground loop

Excellent, thank you Joe. And thanks for the blue on the stick. It helps a lot to see the movements. Pom poms on your toes would be good but I don't blame you for not doing that!

You can also angle towards the wind on touchdown, so that you are more aligned into the wind on touchdown, straightening out after the tailwheel comes down. A 10-15 deg decrease in the sine of the crosswind angle, can make a big difference in the crosswind component. Angling works on takeoff, too.

thanks for sharing - your so good at this and look effortless.

Excellent video, Joe- could not have come at a better time for me! I’ve been trying to work on my confidence in a crosswind with the J3. I still get pretty antsy if it’s over 5kts 😅 Thanks for this!

You make it all look sooo easy. Nice job. My fox only weighs about 650lbs and it gets bullied by the wind if you dont keep on top of it, which I'm still tying to master. Love watching your videos, they inspire me to keep practicing... :)

Best of the best!!!

Great video, Joe.

Great video! Fantastic tips and demonstrations. From a fellow J-3 owner. :-) Liked and subscribed!

Excelente vídeo friends! Strong like to Brasil 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷

Going up gor my bfr today 6/9. And winds are just about at my personal limit. But i know the instructor so im looking forward to getting some good practice in with a bit of a safety net sitting next to me.

Wow Talk about a professional aviator.

Watched it a second time, 70 knots approach…that.s more than twice my stall speed with flaps up! 😂WTH? But thanks for showing, I still wonder if I shall widen my landing gear spur with or keep the 25 degrees angle down🧐from CG …wonder what will happen at 20 knots wind when I have flaps down and basically hoover over the runway with some 5 knits creep diagonally around….kkkk…thanks for showing

I was working on my personal mins in our Aeronca. 15 g19kn direct xwind isn't fun anymore. But a quartering head wind is totally fine. It spooked me but now I know where the line is.

Awesome video, thanks! Can you share a bit more about your AoA consideration for nose down trim in gusty conditions? Do you prefer nose down trim so that you can quickly decrease your AoA in case your AoA rapidly increases and/or airspeed drops down because of a gust? I fly a Husky, so I prefer to trim back/ nose up so that I'm not fighting the trim bungees to get the tail down when I need tailwheel steering as I lose rudder authority. With nose down trim it is unfortunately very difficult to pin the tail on the ground.

This plane is your favourite? How many planes do you have? Could you please tell me about airplane software architecture? How is it actually working and how to implement the software to the airplane? Could you please share the process?

Tail low is fine if you push forward on contact to weight the wheels and unblank the tail. But you have to be aggressive in bringing the tail down once you have some weight on the wheels

That FOV makes your Taxi speed look like a fighter jet 😂

Everybody tell your friends about Joe's Channel,I just found it recently, we want him to be able to give us this stuff we feed on to live❤

Great videos. Question, how do you get the “tail camera” shots?

How did you video the tail view ?

Old great piper J-3 PUB. I have simulator fly this aircraft fun to fly😍🤠👍

How do you get the first person view from behind the aircraft? Pretty neat.

I’ll going to do your technique

Helpful video. Wondering why a lot of cub pilots fly from the back seat. Personal preference or is there some advantage?

Hiya Joe! What motor do you have in your J3? Thanks!

For wheel landings do you typically keep a little power in or are you at full idle?

The first landing you really need to crank the aileron into the wind. It keeps the wing down and the adverse yaw helps keep the plane straight. Also on the roll out feed in full aileron into the wind. Is that a dead Bonanza to the right? I hate seeing that, seems like every airport has one.

Can you explain more about this idea, “if the engine fails at any point in the pattern, you can make the runway”. Does that not imply if you are using ANY amount of power, at ANY point on your approach, you WOULD NOT have made the runway if the engine quit. Thus all your approaches would have to me made power of if your subscribed to that 100%. Personally I like a tight pattern as well, however I have stopped telling my students that this is so they can make the runway from ANY point in the pattern if the engine fails. What are your thoughts?

Good info, BUT when a 15kt windsock is only half out your a LONG ways from 20kts. A true 20kt crosswind would be quite a handful....... in that 700 lb Cub.

why do you fly from the back seat

Is that flying w

Yo tried to zoom in, it would be interesting which speed you were on and what the crosswind actually really was, bcs this was neither 16 nor 20 anyways, sorry….

Sounds interesting, let’s waste time on it and hope it,s worth it….kkkk

Not 20kts *

Not a crosswind if you're looking out the front window.