Without flaps to keep a good rate descent without excessive speed - the forward slip performs the task quite nicely. My CFI had me practice doing forward slips and now I understand why flaps were invented. Took awhile for my head to adjust to doing a slip - in the beginning my head told me to straighten out feeling as though the airplane was about to flip over🫣‼️I suggest learning to do a forward slip with a CFI to start 🙂.
Courtney, a forward slip should also be done at idle or close to idle. If you enter a slip with throttle set for cruise, you are battling your efforts to descend.
Hey Courtney! Is there any particular reason for doing the forward slip the way you demonstrated? It would seem, if you left aileron/right rudder, you'd achieve the same outcome. Is it pilot preference or...?
I am going to guess that it has something to do with p- factor and the torque from the prop wash, biased in that direction so that releasing the pedal tends towards correcting the path rather than away from doing so?
You can do it either way. It just so happens my airplane "likes" it when I do left rudder. While I can't comment on the other forces, I've done the other way, too. I'll probably give that a go again next time up.
@@CourtneyTakesFlight As Courtney says, you can do it either way. I like to see the runway as I descend, so that means I use right aileron and left rudder.
If the winds straight down the runway, it doesn't matter aerodynamically which wing you lower. But if you sitting left seat in a two-seat airplane, it feels easier and gives a better sight picture to lower the left wing. But if you are landing in a cross-wind, always bank into the wind.
It doesn't make sense how someone is so good with their hands. Seriously, i have trouble learning anything and look at you. Anyways, why does the airplane have to be sideways on the decent? Is it kinda like an air breake?
The forward slip is very useful as you have described , but since there is very little structure to a Quicksilver, it doesn't provide quite the effectiveness that one would hope for.
The location (and number) of your static ports may affect your airspeed indication. Also, what the difference between a forward slip and a side slip? Also, is there a time limit on how long you can maintain the slip? If so, why?
A side slip has your airplane pointed in the direction you're flying, while the forward slip has your nose pointed a bit off to the side. I believe there's no limit. I have done this from 8,000 feet myself.
I felt a better control of airplane while crossing ruder and aleron but the instructors all of them everytime gets mad and screems didnt you get what acoordinated flight is?. i don't know why this is acceptable just in this case.
@@CourtneyTakesFlight That makes zero sense... They had to read a lot to become pilots. In fact, to me, I would think any deaf person would become a better reader than most out of necessity. I don't want to argue with you. I just have a problem with things that make no sense. I'm a pilot, I have many pilot friends. They all read and are for the most part very educated. I say the same thing when politicians have someone signing, when CC is available everywhere. Your video was good information. Keep up the good work.
