Originally Posted by
Prop swinger
. . . 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?
If you maintain a normal airspeed & AoA it is perfectly safe to fly a slipping turn into a slipped final approach.
I had an instructor who showed me how to do exactly this in a PA38 from a very high approach. IIRC the trick was to nail 70kt on final with full flap, then apply
full left rudder & use the ailerons to maintain directional control, regaining balanced flight just before the flare. I was never completely comfortable with the procedure as I always had a nagging concern about how it would affect the ASI. My CFI at the time wasn't that enthusiastic either & suggested it would be safer just to stuff the nose down & ignore the flap limiting speed if you ever had to make a landing area in a real emergency situation.