A new direction for an old thread: Crosswind landings

Graeme Cant wrote:

Judging the required control input is different. You used the phrase
"use the ailerons to level the wings". Why didn't you say "use rudder
to yaw the glider straight"?

The colourful phrase you actually used - "a bootfull of rudder" - from
an instructor has probably caused more students to find crosswind
landings difficult than any other aspect of the manoeuvre.

My opinion exactly. How many pilots use slipping to correct for wind
while flying cross country? My wild guess is: none. We all crab without
even talking about it. So what is the reason they don't do so during the
landing?

I can think of only two reasons: They've never learnt to master the
rudder or they've never learnt to recognize and hold the runway axis
unless it's right ahead of their nose. Both reasons claim for more
training, not a change of method.

Stefan