Crab, slips, and crossed controls

"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