Crab, slips, and crossed controls
"Mick" #$$#@%%%.^^^ wrote in :
"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| jeremy wrote in
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| Stefan wrote:
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| An airline pilot who happens to also be a pretty good sailplane
| pilot told me that it would have been much easier and equally
| efficient to just do S turns to adjust the glide path. This would
| also have avoided possible problems driving the air driven
| generator. The pilot who who did a glider landing with anairbus on
| the Azores in 2001 used that technique.
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| Probably the easiest alternative to trying to haul the thing around
| the sky with degraded controls.
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| the controls aren't degraded at all. Not a lot on the way of
| spoilers, but the flight controls work almost exactly the same on the
| RAT as they do normally.
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| Bertie
dumb ass
Awwwwwww,
You're just a big meeeeennnneeeeee!
Bertie
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