Originally Posted by
speedracerntrixie
You guys just don't get it do you? If the airplane is drifting with the wind then you must counter this action somehow. Applying a LITTLE rudder to the direction of the wind will counteract this drift.
Since there are an infinite number of possible wind directions compared to the direction of flight, and only two directions (head on and tailwind) that have no side wind component to the desired track, then almost every part of any flight is done with a sidewind component of some value. Do you really think for even a nano-second, that all those aircraft doing long journeys for hours on end are holding in some rudder all the way?