Matt Whiting wrote:

Only if you are a low-wing pilot. :-)

Matt

Dang it - & I got that bad habit with only 20 minutes in a
Cherokee........!



On further reflection I do taxibacks instead of T&Gs because I own the
airplane (Tach or hourmeter time means nothing) & I self insure the
hull. I also have had to reskin the LH flap on an older 172 due to
cracking at the trailing edge. I'm not critical of others that do
T&Gs, but on shorter runways I like to be fully psyched up for how to
handle a T/O.

I once did a very strong 90 deg Xwind takeoff in which I just happened
to take the Xwind on the right side, got into the rubbity scrub mode
treating it as a short-field since it was at a higher altitude, but
managed to horse it in the air.

It was my good fortune to not have taken that Xwind on the left or I
probably would have rolled it into a ball. My Xwind technique is
different now and hopefully more correct, but I don't take T/Os for
granted anymore. A T/O is a crosswind first - and what performance is
left over can be used for short or soft field. It was a singular hole
in my pre-private instruction that I missed.

I never have seen the right/left crosswind difference noted by others.
Why not?