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Uncle Fuzzy wrote:

For fun. If you get the chance to fly a Janus up high. Play with slips. It
will 'lock over' to either side, dropping like a set of car keys (Thanks for
that image JS) and the canopy mounted yaw string (s) will be pointing....
well, you'll see.
I started playing with this about the time that Jonkers broke a rudder cable
and the guy had to bail. Having read Derek Piggot's warning about the Janus,
and realizing it really took a LOT of pedal force to straighten up, I started
thinking about 'recovery' if one of my 30+ year old rudder cables broke.
Turns out it IS recoverable, but involves a lot of elevator, and eats a lot
of altitude. From a mile AGL, it's doable.

Wondering how long my wandering will persist.

Would love to fly a Janus sometime. Never even seen one in person.

I have played with full rudder slips in a 301 Libelle and a Standard
Cirrus above 6000 ft agl, at around 50 knots starting airspeed. Nothing
happened in the Libelle except for flying fairly sideways and generating
a pretty good sink rate. Tried gradually pulling the nose up to see at
what attitude/airspeed it would start to misbehave. Airspeed was not
reading due to the extreme slip. Thought it would depart and spin before
the nose got too high. I chickened and relaxed the stick when I felt
more buffeting and the controls started getting slack. It flew ok in a
slip with the nose at an attitude I would consider highly alarming close
to the ground. Slipping the Cirrus, the rudder would go hard over to the
right if I got close to full right rudder. Surprised me a bit the first
time it happened. Felt like I was suddenly flying directly sideways. Did
not take inordinate effort to recenter the rudder and the glider behaved
itself just fine. Should try it with the nose up sometime.

If there is one good thing about training in Schweizers, it's that one
learns to slip for glidepath control.

WB (who has also slipped Cezznas with full flaps).