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Old 10-27-2013 | 05:52 AM
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The "right way" is to make your flight path straight with the runway. Your plane will actually be yawed into the wind so you'll be flying a bit sideways, but the travel path is in line. The idea is to rudder the plane straight with the runway the instant before the wheels touch so you don't have to slide the wheels on the ground. If you haven't already, there are good youtube videos demonstrating nearly every flight maneuver you can think of, which is much easier than figuring it out from written descriptions. Now all that said, most pilots don't bother actually learning to do a proper crosswind landing approach. Most will just point the nose into the wind and do an approach that is angled to the runway and try to time it to set the plane down somewhere near the middle. That's the easy way, but there's no bragging rights to be had from it.