Kobra wrote:
>> Even in a single, why don't we see more forward slips to a landing
instead
>> of crab, kick, and pray?
>
> I see no reason to pray. There's little difference in out come with the
> crab technique or the forward slip.
There is one reason you should always pray: the wind is seldom a
constant. As
you're coming in on short final and the wind rapidly ****fts, will it
happen at
the worst possible time? Will it do something so violent as to be totally
unexpected and leaving you no time to recover? *That's* why you should
pray.
I can recall what started as a normal but gusty landing in a Cherokee Six.
I
touched down acceptably and rolled a couple of hundred feet, then found
myself
flying again; only this time I was cocked into the wind at about a 40
degree
angle to the runway at an altitude of about 2 feet. I had been rolling so
far
after my touchdown that I had completely relaxed; all that was left to do
was
taxi. Heh heh... the wind had other ideas. I firewalled it and managed
to keep
from coming down sideways. *That's* the kind of stuff that causes me to
pray at
hinky moments.
--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com
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