Originally Posted by
megan
One author has said in a typical Cessna 152/172/182, depending on the amount of slip, the airspeed can easily be off by 20%, which means the energy is off by 40%. This is enough to cause real trouble. Location of the static source induces errors.
Does it follow that it's more conservative to side-slip to the right if your static port is on the left of the aircraft? ie presenting the static port to the airstream will result in the IAS being lowered rather than raised ?