by dane@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Dane Spearing)
Mar 24, 2008 at 03:08 PM
In article <K-adnSIeKsVBrEranZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe <The Sea Hawk At Wow Way D0t C0m> wrote:
>.
>"Jim Carter" <jim.carter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:zomBj.82$qS5.8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
><...>
>>
>> You're right - I got my slips reversed. Side slip into the wind,
forward
>> slip toward the runway. It's all relative to the line of travel.
>>
>
>
>The way to remember it is that the names are backwards - in a side slip
you
>look forward, and in a forward slip you look out to the side to see where
>you are going.
It's all semantics. A slip is a slip is a slip. The airplane doesn't know
the difference between a side slip and a forward slip because they are
aerodynamically identical. The only difference between a forward slip and
a
side slip is the reason that the pilot is doing the slip: one is for
losing altitude without gaining airspeed, and the other is for staying
lined up on a runway in a crosswind.
-- Dane
