[Rant Warning] Tailwheel Training

In article ,
Bela P. Havasreti wrote:


I don't know squat about 172s (sorry, I'm a 170B guy), but are you
certain the 66 and 67 manuals say "prohibited"? I seem to recall (in
passing) that flaps 40 slips were suggested to be "avoided" (way
different animal than prohibited!).

Yes, prohibited. Someone posted on rec.aviation saying it was
prohibited, I said BS....went to Pilot shop the next day and looked at
the Info Manuals...crow doesn't taste too bad if you use lots of salt
and pepper. G

I've slipped all the single engine Cessna's I've flown with flaps and
haven't run into any problems doing so. I agree that if you have to
slip with 40 flaps your planning might not have been the best...but it's
a nice tool to have in the bag if you have to put the airplane
somewhere...like after the engine quits. Engine out landing is why I
practice it....and I've had to use it.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

On Thu, 20 May 2004 23:10:18 -0800, Dale wrote:

Well, at least crow gets more palatable with each serving.... 8^)

I'm with the other guy who posted that perhaps Cessna lawyers
got the word "avoided" changed to "prohibited" in the manuals.

Then later, more Cessna lawyers talked the engineers into
limiting the flaps to 30 degrees (to weed out even more
nerds!).

Bela P. Havasreti

In article ,
Bela P. Havasreti wrote:


I don't know squat about 172s (sorry, I'm a 170B guy), but are you
certain the 66 and 67 manuals say "prohibited"? I seem to recall (in
passing) that flaps 40 slips were suggested to be "avoided" (way
different animal than prohibited!).

Yes, prohibited. Someone posted on rec.aviation saying it was
prohibited, I said BS....went to Pilot shop the next day and looked at
the Info Manuals...crow doesn't taste too bad if you use lots of salt
and pepper. G

I've slipped all the single engine Cessna's I've flown with flaps and
haven't run into any problems doing so. I agree that if you have to
slip with 40 flaps your planning might not have been the best...but it's
a nice tool to have in the bag if you have to put the airplane
somewhere...like after the engine quits. Engine out landing is why I
practice it....and I've had to use it.