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Extremely gusty crosswind landing

Join me on a flight to Milan Malpensa, Italy, featuring a gusty crosswind landing in a Boeing 737-400 (Boeing 737 Classic).
When well above the runway, one way to compensate is to "crab"-turn the airplane into the wind so that the course being flown ...
The article discusses two primary crosswind landing techniques: the "slip" method (author's preference, involving lowering the upwind wing and using opposite rudder throughout final approach and ...