With much trepidation, I comment:
Do we really need reminding about the basic effect of wind on an aircraft in flight? The differences between course, track, heading, ground speed, indicated airspeed? Is this what we get when we rely exclusively on GPS and nav software? Never happened in the whizzwheel days.
We do not lay off the drift with rudder, and skid around the sky. We fly with the ball in the middle, wings level.
Only exceptions would be:
sideslipping to lose altitude without increasing speed
crosswind landings, especially through a wind gradient.
Straight stalls take place with reference to the parcel of air moving over the ground. At training altitude, wind speed and direction are factors only for positioning over the ground.
Before doing the exercise, don't forget HASELL, clearance turns and check for time vortices.
