The A380 requires the crab technique but, bizarrely, the aircraft decrabs around the cockpit - more or less. God alone knows what the FCS does to achieve this. Previous types, for me, had me sat over the grass before a decrab and the cockpit was at the end of a long arc as you de-crabbed. My turbo-prop time was on a high wing and lent itself well to the wing down method, although one ex RN chief pilot of mine professed much alarm at this technique, claiming never to have heard of it before when I demonstrated it, whereas I was taught it on the Bulldog from the word go. I used to teach this method on light singles and had much success with low hour pilots....the 380 geometry would not allow this though.