The "Side Slip" - How I was taught to Side Slip - Can save you from fast Landing approach!

In this video, I am shown how to "Side Slip" - A manouvre you will use to save your Plane or your Life.
I cannot emphasize how important this manouver is... and I often forget that it's in my "Bag of Tricks" for any landing approach speed issues.
I almost always lazily just use Flap and get "stale" with the technique.
Mental Note: I need to do Flapless Side Slip Approaches once a month to remind me its available... and if only just for fun. It's fun.
0:00 Take-off into Sun
0:31 Flapless Glide Approach - No Side Slip
1:45 Coach Demo's a "Side Slip"
3:25 My Side Slip as Shown by Coach.

[@fly1327]

I think essential for pilots to learn and use often. Lots more margin for error on approach, meaning you can err high and really tailor your touchdown. Then even engine failure is just a glider landing. Of course, I flew sailplanes for years ;-)

[@prome666]

Thanks for the video :)

[@pelicanaviationjourney]

My pleasure!

[@jamiechalmers2080]

The good old Viper - such fun to fly ......

[@pelicanaviationjourney]

Haha... yes... she was great... all I could handle at the start.

[@macmccune21]

This is a lot of fun even on flight simulator with a budget VR headset... Probably good thing a relative didnt leave me any money because I know what I would have wasted it on!

[@felixthecat3n2]

Is this not, strictly speaking, a "forward slip, rather than a "side slip"?

[@CarlosMzL1]

I was taught to do ailerons first then rudder because is safer and you avoid to skid unintentionally. I'm interested to know why do you use rudder first?

[@pelicanaviationjourney]

Interesting... I must say, I've never really thought about it that deeply. My feel for the Sling TSi is that any Rudder input is very quickly noticed, so I can't imagine that when either "Rudder" or "Aileron" input is introduced... the other will not be too far apart from each other. I think you're right though... I think its natuaral to go with Aileron first. Gentlly Gently.

[@bigbellyton]

very nice video, but ive notice that runway looks extremelyy narrow - which aerodrome is this?

[@pelicanaviationjourney]

Haha... yes.. Queensland Australia... YHEC. I was told when I started... if you can land here you can land anywhere. The draw back is that, when learning, you are not immersed in "Radio" traffic... which I find now I wish I was much better at managing. Cheers s

[@bigbellyton]

@@pelicanaviationjourney fortunately (or unfortunately? lol) for me im doing my training at YSBK... you can imagine how busy the frequency is especially on a calm sunny day

[@pelicanaviationjourney]

YSBK will be really good for you. Three Parallel Runways makes for almost every kind of "Traffic" situation. I'm a little jealous.