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Old September 26th 08, 03:41 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,alt.usenet.kooks
Bertie the Bunyip[_28_]
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Default Crab, slips, and crossed controls

"Mick" #$$#@%%%.^^^ wrote in :


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| Stefan wrote in news:752a8$48d89b77

$d9a270a8
| :
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| schrieb:
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| The Air Canada pilot was a sailplane pilot, too, familiar

with
| slipping, and had operated sailplanes out of Gimli so he knew the
| place. If anyone else had been at the controls it might not have
| turned out so pretty.
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| 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.
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|
|
| Bull****.
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| Bertie

Like you would know.




Snort! There are sevral here who know me and have flown with me.



My guess is they're laughing their asses off at you now.

But hey, n with the maxine show.







Bertie