Forward Slips?

we had a discussion on this topic during my CFI training. the basic theroy was that a slip INTO the wind is more "stable" (ex: wind from left of a/c on approach, thus you'd have your left wing "dipped" down, right wing will be high, and a right deflection of the rudder). in this situation if you were to accidentally stall the aircraft how would the a/c react? the quick explanation is that one wing will stall before the other one in this uncoordinated slipping manuever. if you're slipping into the wind as exlained above, your right wing(the high one) will stall first.

now lets say you do the opposite and were slipping away from the wind (ex: wind from aircraft's left, so you "dip" your right wing down, left wing goes high, and you deflect the rudder to the left). in this situation if you stall, which wing do you expect to stall first? quick answer is that your right, or low wing in this instance will stall first.


think about both situations: would you rather your "LOW" wing stall(slip away from wind) or would you rather the "HIGH" wing stall(slip into wind). both situations suck, but if that low wing stalls first then the aircraft is going to snap over onto its back pretty quickly. now if the high wing stalled first it would tend to drop to wings level, or maybe dip low depending on how quickly you react to the stall. at least you have a chance to react in that situation and probably save you and your passengers lives. so basically thats why you should slip into the wind and not away from it.


go up one day and try both out and see how your aircraft reacts. i did just that while doing spin training and it was an eye opener. if you make it so the low wing stalls first the plane snaps over real quick, you've got almost no time to react to it. the other way you at least keep some semblance of blue side up. there are plenty more details as to why all this happens but that would take a little more discussion.
 
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