An airplane should be set up to land itself. Now there is an admiration worth working towards, lets see how that works for those that fly anything but a trainer style airplane on a very calm day, maybe.


Suggesting slip during landing for slow down seems a bit odd anyway. It would seem odd or even frighten someone into deluding themselves in the belief of it being a dangerous landing technique for some as you indicated because they do not practice or even attempt to practice this basic maneuver. Just about all IMAC guys I know can perform a slip landing without a second thought, the thread starter stated he wanted to slow A Katana, and that is an aerobatic airplane that would easily fly through this simple maneuver with just a little practice... Now I will agree that the slip technique will require allot more practice on other type plane forms; like trainer's for instance, because they get real pissed off when you cross up the controls usually, but remember, we are supposed to be talking about a Katana, and I have several hundred flights with Katana's and they play nice when you cross them up to slow down.


The look at me ''I'm way cool'' is an entirely different issue not associated with 'minimum controllable flight speed'. I see from your "way cool" compliment; you must have watched the two landings and your ignoring the fact that all that drag from the slip slowed the airplane much better then the straight in approach. Well to each their own... Happy Flying.

Bob