John, You are exactly right and I would hope everyone that has shown interest in this topic will examine your explanation very close until they are sure they understand it. A very big thanks. JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martindale Family" <johnja...@optusnet.com.au> To: <brokerpilot9...@earthlink.net>; "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:00 PM Subject: Re: KR> slipping and stalls
> Sorry Colin :-) > > Under any positive G, if you fly close to the stall (whatever it might be) > and then induce a side slip you risk the stall and possible spin > irrespective of whether you are descending, climbing or maintaining level > flight. You must put the stick forward and on descent this will produce an > increase in airspeed. I sincerely hope you are not teaching students to > conduct sideslip approaches at the same airspeed as that applying to a > balanced approach. If so, you are eating into your safety margin in my > humble view. Even worse if you have some flap out masking the elevator > effectiveness, eg., the Cessna 150 where slips are prohibited under flap. > > Regards John. >