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Old 13th April 2012 | 03:56
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john_tullamarine
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i would like to know the hidden side slip that my instruments can not detect.

Unless you have a vane (or the poor man's alternative - a yaw string) you will only be able to make some nominal and approximate inferences regarding sideslip - significant sideslip is easy - but when you get to small angles, pilot assessment is going to tend towards imagination.

The Concorde folk, on the other hand, had it all laid out before them ...
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