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Old 26th November 2003 | 08:51
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flyer4life
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Hi,

It's because you are banked towards the live engine but not actually turning. So the only force on the ball is gravity, and the ball therefore sits in the lowest point of the glass arc.

When flown correctly, you are in a zero-slip condition despite what the ball says. It's just a limitation of the instrument when in asymmetric flight. A true slip indicator such as a yaw string would show zero-slip correctly.

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