At 01:42 30 January 2004, Mark James Boyd wrote:
In article ,
Todd Pattist wrote:

As a matter of interest, how did you handle the request
to
demonstrate a 'no airbrakes' landing where you needed
a
forward slip on both base and final? Did you bring
the
rudder fully through to the opposite side (inside of
the
turn) to intersperse a coordinated turn between your
forward
slips?

Yep. Exactly. I've used slips in taildraggers extensively,
during no-flap demonstrations, and on lots of checkrides.
Always interspersed a coordinated turn. Kinda funny
to write it here now that I think about it. Just something
I haven't done before, I can't really explain why...



Ah, power planes, not gliders! Do you not think perhaps
we should be differentiating between rudder usage in
power plane, and a glider? I started flying originally
in gliders, so I dont have any bad habits from power
flying, and when I fly powered aircraft, i cant help
but fly coordinated all the time. I know that power
pilots who make the transition to gliders quite often
make fundemental errors due to the power mindset when
sat in a glider. What do you think?