I am struggling to visualise what I actually do and I do it almost all of the time cos the field I now fly from has only one runway.................
I tend to fly 'by feel' and (I think!!) I feel that allowing the wing to drop into wind and correcting with rudder it feels more stable than a flatter approach using power as flat crabbing feels more like I am fighting the aeroplanes natural tendancy and it seems like a bigger workload.
I am sorry if that does not sound too scientific but I have never really thought that much about what I do. maybe it is because more recently in my flying hobby I have been more focused on microlights and I tend not to do much in the way of powered approaches as I like to use as much of the aircrafts natural flying ability as I can - rather than the engine.
I will concentrate on my technique next time so I know what actually do - I don't really think about it.