Crab, slips, and crossed controls

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| Robert Moore wrote in
| 2.60:
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| Stealth Pilot wrote
| Sideslips are a very useful tool because they allow you to
| substantially increase the drag, which makes you descent like a
| plumbers toolbag, but doesnt change the forward speed. so you have no
| increased risk of stalling as you wash off the height.
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| What you have described is the "forward slip". Although control usage
| is the same in both, a "side slip" is used to correct for a crosswind,
| and a "forward slip" is used to descend more rapidly on final without
| having the airspeed increase. If one is not landing, I suppose that it
| would just be a "slip".
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| Airliners normally do not use either because of the increased discomfort
| caused the passengers....both being uncoordinated flight.
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| Actually, they do. The 72 and 70 were kind of excepetions because of the
| risk of dragging a flap or pod, but most jet airliners land better in
| crosswinds when slipped.
| Even the autopilot will slip it if you're doing an autoland
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| Bertie
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You're an idiot. Stay in context dumb ass.