What is a "Forward Skip"?

and maintain the same ground track.. like the extended centerline on final..
the longitudinal axis of the glider is not lined up with the runway.. but
the ground track is.. a forward slip..

now.. use left bank, and enough right rudder to maintain the longitudinal
axis parallel to the runway centerline.. and you have a side slip.. the idea
is to have just enough slide slip to counter act the cross wind component..
and you land on centerline without any side loads to the landing gear..

in the absence of any wind.. the maneuver would be a slow drift to the side
of the runway to which banked.. with the fuselage parallel to the runway

BT

"569" wrote in message
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Slip into the wind. Add hard right rudder, turn the yoke hard left,
add some forwad pressure. This exposes more of the surface to the
wind, and you're able to loss more altitude, without a noticable gain
in airspeed. Some aircraft prhobit slips with flaps extended, others
make no mention.