On Apr 6, 9:44 am, Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:23:16 +0000, Allen wrote:
A side slip is used to compensate for crosswind drift, the
aircraft longitudinal axis is parallel to the runway centerline.

And, though I've heard about the "crab and kick" method, I'm a little
surprised that it works. As soon as one "kicks", one is drifting. Isn't
the side-loading at touch-down a problem? Or is that too small to matter?

If you lower the into wind wing too much or not enough you run the
risk of sideloading the gear so it requires a steady hand and constant
adjustments to get it right. Its not rocket science though.