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Old 10th May 2005, 22:53
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185skywagon
 
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OK, to setup a good skid, you have to lose traction. the only way to do that would be to lock both mains up as you initiated a turn. a bit of power would be good here, but there wouldn't be any, which is why you are landing in the first place.
just think back to when you used to do handbrake slides in your ground based chariot. as long as you completely lost traction with back wheels, you can't get into too much trouble, even on bitumen. we used to do them in our utes on single lane bitumen roads, when we were young and stoopid.
i have heard of a blokes doing the same in C210 on a greasy dirt runway.
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