Originally Posted by
speedracerntrixie
OK Al there is no way we are going to settle this at a keyboard. Next time you are out flying in a cross wind try flying passes back and forth 200 ft out using a 1/2 cuban at each end to turn around making rudder corrections only at the end and see how that works for you. I have coached enough beginning IMAC pilots to know the outcome but I realize you will need to see for yourself.
Speed,
I don't deny that you can keep your plane on a straight ground track in a crosswind with rudder corrections. I just deny that you can do it by applying rudder and
keeping it applied, which is what I understand you to mean by "holding rudder.". What is your reasoning here? Is it that the crosswind changes the plane's heading? Or that applying rudder doesn't change the plane's heading? Unless one of those things is true, and neither of them is, applying rudder and keeping it there will not offset a crosswind.