Originally Posted by Backpacker
I'm also a glider pilot so quite used to the use of air brakes. In a glide approach, I tend to use flaps the same way. The only complication compared to gliders is that the pitch required to compensate for flap deployment is more, compared to airbrake deployment.
BP, I would say slipping is a much closer comparison to airbrakes than flaps and have always seen them as similar.