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Old 12-28-2012 | 05:14 AM
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Default RE: Tips to make you a Better Pilot:


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I contend that if your attemptig to land the wings are keept Level with the ailerons and the heading is done with the RUDDER.
Full scale pilots don't fly that way. Why should we? Except when you are doing a slip intentionally, there's no reason why either a full scale plane or a model should be uncoordinated
Is that a side slip or a forward slip? Big difference between the two.

As to what full scale pilots do, it depends on the airplane what technique they use. While dipping a wing into a cross wind and touching down on one wheel works nice on a little Cessna, it tends to bend metal on a 747.
No full scale pilot lands any plane by using the ailerons to keep the wings level and steering with the rudder. As another poster pointed out earlier, it's a myth that RC pilots should do this. I don't fly that way, none of my students flies that way, and I don't know anybody else who does. If it works for you, fine. But recommending this to people looking for flying tips is giving poor advice.

As for slips, I don't understand your point. It's true that forward slips and side slips are different. But each of them is uncoordinated, as I said. It's also true that you wouldn't do a Chinese pass with a 747. Nobody said you would. If you are steering with the rudder and keeping the wings level, all your turns are skidding. There's nothing to be gained by doing that.