Originally Posted by
Andy_RR
I found that x-wind landings properly 'clicked' with me when my instructor doing my tailwheel endorsement/differences took me to a strip that was pretty much full x-wind component and made me approach and fly the length of it then go around.
I've had an instructor make me fly about 1km six feet above the runway in a crosswind, but I'm not sure it helped my landings much.
Here's a solution to crosswind landings:
(1) Get a floatplane.
(2) Land into wind every time.
(Which is not difficult even with long thin lakes, as you tend not to get winds right across the lake, on account of where would such a wind come from and where would it go to?)