Originally Posted by gengis
I agree with Smokey. With an engine out the airplane flies a lot better with a tiny bit of sideslip and little bit of bank than it does with wings level & ball centered. Dunno why it should be, though
For any aeroplane on asyemetric thrust, the true zero sideslip (and thus minimum drag) condition in straight flight is achieved with a small amount of bank towords the live engine.
What I don't know is how the slip indicator works (the little rectangle under the bank pointer)
Does it indicate true sideslip under aysemetric thrust (and would therefore be centered with the correct small bank angle)? or does it simply replicate the traditional slip ball (and would therefore be displaced toword the lower wing)?