If you've not been taught slipping as a student, you've been short changed.It's a v. natural flying manoeuvre and it always seems odd that it's placed in the 'special' category. A certain flying school (in Oxfordshire!) frowned upon slipping in Pa28s due to possible fuel supply probs. Shame, because an ex school instructor (ingrained in the anti slip ways) then landed long during a forced landing (engine off) and wrote off the C152. He accepts that a timely slip would have helped.....
Didn't anyone read Biggles?