I suppose we could get into the age old discussion on whether a plane feels cross winds and waste a lot of pages of words on the subject, What do you think?

2slow2matter, what you discribe sounds like crabbing to me, where did you get confused?

Rajeev seemed to have slips understood, so I only descussed crabbing. By the way, there are two types of slips: Side and Forward. Now, children, whom can explain each?