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Old 20th May 2012, 20:19
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. . . and yet it is perfectly safe to sideslip until just before touchdown. Isn't it routine for unflapped aerobatic aircraft (with no washout!) to sideslip to land?

At height, trim your aircraft to fly at your normal approach speed, in a slight descent if you like, & apply rudder. You will get plenty of yaw & a little roll as a secondary effect. Do the same at a few knots above the 1g stall speed & you will get a little yaw & lots of wing drop. The retreating wing has a slightly higher AoA than the advancing wing but for it to stall & drop the wing has to be very close to the stalling AoA in the first place.

A skidding turn, in itself, is no more dangerous than a slipping turn but it is an indicator of an overloaded pilot who is behind the aircraft. Typically they are looking down the wing at the landing area, underbank in the turn but pull back on the controls and then feed in the rudder to hurry the turn along.

If you maintain a normal airspeed & AoA it is perfectly safe to fly a slipping turn into a slipped final approach.
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