airframe stress?
I quite a enjoy a good bit of side-slip; one of the best moments in my limited flying experience was a 'game-over' type botched PFL that ended up with me hurtling over a field in a full slip towards high trees with an astonished farmer looking round at my side-ways flying aircraft. Have also used side-slipping occassionally to expedite descent when necessary, having early on in my flying training been shown how to drop through a cloud layer using in a full slip, achieving more than 2500ft/min!
But, on a PA-28-151 checkout recently, in the US, the instructor intervened when I started side-slipping during the PFL, claiming it would put too much stress on the airframe (that particular one was 30 years old, with a few cracks right enough). Could there be some truth in that, or just a myth?
I also sometimes have this nightmare that when flying something with stiff heavy controls like a Warrier, I'll suddenly feel a 'snap' and the controls will be feel full and free like never before.
Last edited by carb; 24th Nov 2002 at 22:54.