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Old February 21st 05, 03:06 PM
Nyal Williams
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One advantage for the slip is that it has the upwind
wing low at touchdown. I prefer to have that wing
just a bit down so that the wind is less likely to
get under it on rollout. (Same reason I want that
wing just a bit down for a crosswind launch.


At 12:30 21 February 2005, Bert Willing wrote:
Additionally, if you don't crab to stay centered during
final, you stalling
speed will be higher. I never saw anybody slipping
for wind correction in a
glider in Europe...

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Bert Willing

ASW20 'TW'


'Stefan' a écrit dans le message de news:
...
Graeme Cant wrote:

Judging the required control input is different.
You used the phrase
'use the ailerons to level the wings'. Why didn't
you say 'use rudder to
yaw the glider straight'?

The colourful phrase you actually used - 'a bootfull
of rudder' - from an
instructor has probably caused more students to find
crosswind landings
difficult than any other aspect of the manoeuvre.


My opinion exactly. How many pilots use slipping to
correct for wind while
flying cross country? My wild guess is: none. We all
crab without even
talking about it. So what is the reason they don't
do so during the
landing?

I can think of only two reasons: They've never learnt
to master the rudder
or they've never learnt to recognize and hold the
runway axis unless it's
right ahead of their nose. Both reasons claim for
more training, not a
change of method.

Stefan