Slip it in!

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I’ve been reading about slips, the technique where you “cross control” the ailerons and rudder, for the purpose of loosing altitude quickly, without increasing airspeed. Magic! Perfect for when you’re coming in too high. So I decided to try it in Piglets beautiful J-20, at Bangoka airport in central Africa. I wanted to take a picture during this replay, but, sadly, replay mode does not show control surface deflections! Anyhow, as you can see, I’m way too high. As I turned on to final, I banked back to the right and stepped on a lot of left rudder. She dropped out of the sky like one of Wyle E. Coyote’s famous anvils, but the airspeed was stable (more or less.) She’s difficult to control during this maneuver, the nose is all over the place, and exiting the maneuver smoothly is important too, or the nose swings over wildly the other way. Very cool. The book talks about “forward slips” vs. “side slips”, but I don’t understand the distinction.
 
Try LilSki's Champ, it slips like a.......well, like a Champ...:ernae:
 
pointy31 said:
Try LilSki's Champ, it slips like a.......well, like a Champ...:ernae:
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Will do! I read someplace that not all planes can do this in FS, because it has to be built into the FM. This plane, and the SU AT-6, can do it quite well.
 
Sideslip is what you did. Forward slip is where you'd keep the nose straight ahead while maintaining bank into the wind, like you might do in a crosswind landing, touching down on your upwind gear first.

Not sure if FSX simulates it or not, but you really want to pay attention to the aircraft attitude (how high or low your nose is) in a sideslip since your pitot tube will be pointing just as sideways as your nose, leading to pretty inaccurate airspeed indication. :isadizzy:

cheers,
steve :wavey:
 
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