"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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I keep seeing that lame airbus crap.... here is how a REAL airplane
handles a crosswind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOxo0s33sI



I don't get it.

When I was first learning to fly, the initial, basic technique taught was
crabbing, like those shown in the video.
Later, we were taught to dip the aircraft into to the crosswind, in a
balanced turn offset by the effects of the crosswind, and the approach was
normal to the runway.

Then again, I am not a super experienced pilot, so maybe there's something
going on here that I don't understand.

But ... I'll always remember ... any landing that you can walk away from was
a good one!

Eisboch