Cameras mounted behind the student and instructor that both look out the windscreen from center cockpit and also capture the pilot's and instructor's yoke and knees put us in position to clearly observe both student success and common errors. With early students, and unfortunately even with seasoned pilots, we often see the yoke moving left, right, left, right much like the auto steering wheel in an attempt to maintain alignment with the runway centerline on final. The frequency of this wing wagging method of alignment gets more pronounced and more disruptive on short final to eventual touchdown off center or without longitudinal alignment. This distraction makes learning round out and flair technique more difficult than they already are. From our cockpit view it is easy to see the problem. The cg (from the centered camera position we don't have to look between our legs) is on the centerline extended but the nose is pointed slightly left. The nose yaws left a bit and then the airplane banks right. On centerline extended but nose right of centerline. Nose yaws right a bit and then the airplane banks left. On centerline extended but nose left of centerline. Nose yaws left a bit and then the airplane banks right. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat...round out...flair...touchdown crooked or go around. The instructor is trying to tweak the too high or too low round out and the too high or too low flair. What is the instructor missing here? Why is the student having problems with landing?

Hopefully we get another video of the same student and instructor practicing crosswind landings and hopefully in a fairly strong crosswind. What does it tell us, and should tell the instructor, that they student is now having less longitudinal alignment problems using the side slip method of drift management? Why is it that both instructor and student wake up and start walking the rudder dynamically and proactively to maintain runway alignment so much better than in a no wind condition? Like the old airplanes with no wing engineering to mitigate but not correct adverse yaw, crosswind forces the issue except for those who crab until flair and then side slip to line up and counter drift.

Instructors, do you teach straight and level before teaching turns? Does the aileron and with it adverse yaw have anything to do with directing our course to a distant target? Correction? Turns to correct longitudinal alignment? No, no, no. This would be the beginning of the problem. Do we want to turn or do we want to go straight? Do we want to introduce adverse yaw in straight and level or is it enough of a problem when we actually want to turn? Do we want incorrect yaw to bracket the target or do we want correct yaw to bracket the target. What will happen to wings level if we turn? What will happen to wings level if we use dynamic proactive rudder (walk the rudders rapidly and evenly) to bracket the target?

Instructors let's teach flying first and ACS after solo in around ten hours. Would that mess up any student's program?