On the T-7 for over 10 years. Did a line check on a bloke some years ago who landed in a 25-30kts crosswind without removing the crab...it felt like a massive cruncher. He was ashen faced and thought that was the end of the world. I cooly told him nothing to it but he was still mighty worried.
To ease his mind told him to write it up in the maintenance log and get the techies to check. True enough the techies came back with a report of 1.47vertical G and a sideload of 0.66... no drama.
The T-7 has a long wheel base with 3 pairs of wheels on the MLG...the geometry of a crosswind landing without decrab on touchdown gives rise to moments/torques that make the landing seem very bad than it actually is. Guys who have not physically flown a T-7 will go all pale as ghosts when that happens, especially those simmers who only qualify as experts in the box.
