Crab, slips, and crossed controls

jeremy wrote in
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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 sky with degraded controls.

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.


Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| jeremy wrote in
| :
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| 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 sky with degraded controls.
|
| 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.
|
|
| Bertie

dumb ass

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


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
...
| jeremy wrote in
| :
|
| 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 sky with degraded controls.
|
| 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.
|
|
| Bertie

dumb ass




Awwwwwww,


You're just a big meeeeennnneeeeee!




Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| "Mick" #$$#@%%%.^^^ wrote in :
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| "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
| ...
| | jeremy wrote in
| | :
| |
| | 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 sky with degraded controls.
| |
| | 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.
| |
| |
| | Bertie
|
| dumb ass
|
|
|
|
| Awwwwwww,
|
|
| You're just a big meeeeennnneeeeee!
|
|
|
|
| Bertie