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(JFLEISC) wrote:


I have our '61 C-172 POH in front of me and it lists 'authorized'
operations.
I guess if it's not on the list "my" interpretation would be "unauthorized".
It
also goes on to state 'No acrobatic manuvers are approved except those listed
below'. Loops wasn't one of them. I guess it was "my" interpretation that if
it
wasn't 'approved' it was "prohibited". As for the prohibited 40 slip placard,
it was an AD, I believe, and my A&P put it (the label, placard, whatever you
want to call it) on the flap handle. I argued about it and he showed me the
AD
number (please don't make me dig that one up) and instructions.

So does it actually say in your Owners Manual that slips with flaps are
prohibited? In my reply to Bob Moore you'll see that I've found that
different years have different procedures slips with flaps...curious
about your '61 model.

I've never seen slips mentioned as an authorized operation on any of the
airplanes I've flown and certainly wouldn't consider them prohibited
simply because they weren't mentioned. The airplane is licensed in the
normal category which allows "any maneuvers incidental to normal
flying"...slips certainly aren't abnormal for light aircraft.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

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