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Old September 26th 08, 05:34 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Mick[_2_]
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Default Crab, slips, and crossed controls


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| "Mick" #$$#@%%%.^^^ wrote in :
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| "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| | jeremy wrote in
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| | Stefan wrote:
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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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| | Probably the easiest alternative to trying to haul the thing around
| | the sky with degraded controls.
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| | the controls aren't degraded at all. Not a lot on the way of
| | spoilers, but the flight controls work almost exactly the same on the
| | RAT as they do normally.
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| | Bertie
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| dumb ass
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| Awwwwwww,
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| You're just a big meeeeennnneeeeee!
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| Bertie