Interesting way to do things!

Hmmmm....his advice seems sound...

You can Do it Chucky! just keep your nose pointing in the right direction and the next thing you know you will have aced the cross winds landing!
--Rick

Looks like he's getting it!

is this the big thing that was keeping him frustrated all along?

Yes. His crosswind woes started back on this page.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/15299626/

Just as he started to figure out landing, the winds started changing with the season and threw in the complication of a crosswind.

there is youtube of huge jetliners having to do this, not quite at 45degrees to the runway, but not straight on.

as for landing, I remember a book where the elevator was stuck in place, so the pilot got as low as he could, then used the trim tabs to go down to the pavement. dunno how truthful that is, or what the book was that I read, but I figure you could tell me..

Yes, that's totally legit. My instructor had me fly the airplane with just the trim tab and the rudders, and I had my students do the same thing.

I understand there is a technique called "Crabbing" and it involves swinging the plane from side to side, which apparently loses altitude. can this help in crosswind landings?

The crab angle is what you want to do on the approach to keep the airplane's flight path aligned with the runway. In panel 5 the airplane is 'crabbed' into the wind. Some airplanes are actually built to land this way where either they can withstand a small side-load, or in the case of the Boeing B-52, it has castering landing gear.

The airplane will not lose excess altitude in a crab because the fuselage is still aligned with the wind. It's the slip that causes excess drag and aids in a quick descent because with the rudder input, you're forcing the airplane to be slight broadside to the wind.

flying sideways even a little bit must be Scary!

It feels a little unnatural until you're familiar with it.

Been there, done that.....and invented the "crash and go"...around!"

Crash and go's, teaching students how to land since the beginning.

Well done Chucky, tomorrow we'll be doing touch and goes on the USS Kittyhawk with an F-18.

Bunners

What is "flying in a slip", for us land dwellers?

Basically, you are banking into the crosswind, but using opposite rudder to keep the plane lined up with the runway instead of turning.

Without any control inputs, and airplane will weather-vane itself into the wind, which is fine for flying. But when it comes time to land, you gotta realign the airplane with the runway. If the wind is blowing across the runway, you'll have to use the control inputs that  MichelMephit describes above. It's called a 'slip' because the airplane is 'slipping' sideways through the relative wind, but still lined up with the runway. It's something that takes some practice when you're learning to fly, or at least it took a bit for me to figure it out.

Called it. I knew he was going to teach him to do a side slip. :-D

Chucky needs an Ercoupe. You just land them things crabbed and let the main gear straighten you out.

Sometimes it's not the student, it's the instructor. You just need a different approach to make the approach.

I like the lower left panel where you added the partial visible flight controls :)

Thanks. I struggled with how to do that a little. I really don't want the flight controls in the way all the time, especially if it's going to block their body language and such.

I think you current solution is a good way to show this scene

Had to perform a crosswind landing last week for the first time. That Cessna was just sliding from side to side, and touchdown needs quite a bit of play with the breaks to get it going straight again.

Good! What kind of Cessna were you flying? Just keep at it!

A C172, registration N745TW

Awesome! What airport you learning at? Don't worry, not stalking.

Nah it's good. I fly out of KSLC, Salt lake City International airport

Cool! I love SLC, gorgeous place to fly. I spent a year flying freight out of there. I never got tired of the scenery.

Agreed. I'll need to fly over the national parks when I get my licence

And this is why I'll never learn to fly.

Well, that and the terrifying feeling of my stomach being left behind during a steep dive. O.o;; Roller coasters are pretty much a no-go as well.

You'd probably get used to it fairly quickly. That is, if you actually wanted to do it.