Slipping in Turns

Jim Hendrix wrote:
I'm wondering if many people hold a mild slip in turns and why they do it.
Please reply to this post if you do this and give your reason(s).

Thanks,
Jim Hendrix


Yes many do, me included. In the gliders I've tried it in, Grob 103
Ventus b and Mosquito, I find I have much better pitch control when
turning steeply e.g. 45 deg. People argue the aerodynamic pros and
cons. I figure if I can stay in a tight thermal more easily, or a more
powerful core, I'll climb faster. Works for me.

Cheers,
Shawn

I'm anyway too stupid to fly coordinated, so I choose to better slip into
the thermal than skidding out of it :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


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Jim Hendrix wrote:
I'm wondering if many people hold a mild slip in turns and why they do
it.
Please reply to this post if you do this and give your reason(s).

Thanks,
Jim Hendrix


Yes many do, me included. In the gliders I've tried it in, Grob 103
Ventus b and Mosquito, I find I have much better pitch control when
turning steeply e.g. 45 deg. People argue the aerodynamic pros and
cons. I figure if I can stay in a tight thermal more easily, or a more
powerful core, I'll climb faster. Works for me.

Cheers,
Shawn

What about this: when I press another pedal slowly down an keep it there,
holding wings level, plane begins to fly round a point at the noses and
pressed pedals side. Thread shows I am skidding to opposite side. I could
allmost thermal like this, holding wings in level.

So why shoud I slip into thermal, becouse skidding out of it turns the plane
into the direction of thermals core.

Complicated...

js


"Bert Willing" wrote in
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I'm anyway too stupid to fly coordinated, so I choose to better slip into
the thermal than skidding out of it :-)

--
Bert Willing