View Single Post
  #2  
Old September 23rd 08, 03:36 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_24_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,969
Default Crab, slips, and crossed controls

wrote in
:

On Sep 23, 8:12*am, jeremy wrote:
Stefan wrote:
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.


Probably the easiest alternative to trying to haul the thing around
the s

ky
with degraded controls.

JJ


S-turns are OK if you have the room. If you're in too close
they're useless. I can image the distance needed to S-turn an
airliner...


Xactly.


Bertie