Forward Slip to Landing (C-152)

C-152 at pattern altitude left downwind for runway 20 KHIO, for a touch & go. On final, we're wayyyy too high, so we do a forward slip to lose altitude quickly without gaining airspeed. Left audio channel is ambient cockpit sound; right audio channel is radio. [YouTube seems to mix the two together.]

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• flying
• c152
• forward
• slip

[TheMattys4]

How did you get to record the atc audio?

[apebiz]

@TheMattys4 A Digital8 camcorder. It has an input jack for an external stereo mic. I made an adaptor which fed an external monaural mic to the left channel stereo mic input, and a resistive pad to connect an extra headset jack in the aircraft to the right channel stereo mic input. This allowed me to adjust the volume of ambient cockpit sound and ATC/intercom audio independently in post-flight editing. You can't hear it in this video because YouTube mixed the two channels into one.

[zseartcc25]

Shannon, so tight man!!!

[apebiz]

Ha! Thanks!

Where you at in your certificates these days anyway? CFI? CFII? MEI?

[oiseautempete]

This was realy a very light slip...: i use common this technic with a Skyranger UL (same dimentions as the C152) but to land on my very short grass strip, i think you need a bit practice to take it better...

[AVIATIO]

@apebiz

I fly the 172S equipped with a Garmin G1000. I believe that for that model the limitation of 20-degrees flaps has been eliminated.

[shadowmastertx]

The camera angle makes it impossible to see what the video is trying to show you how to do. Plus, 2 min of video, and 10 seconds of slip. Needs to be better edited.

[caseyboy1123]

@apebiz Hey great video! just wondering how you connected the airplane radio into the camera?

[MrSpykumar]

good

[MrSpykumar]

good

[b26maurader]

Worked out real nice.

[BB10Pilot]

Well, it depends on the aircraft. Most of the Cessna POH's do say to "avoid" doing slips with certain flap configurations, but does not prohibit you to do them.

A slip is a slip. Nothing is aerodynamically different from a forward slip to a side slip.

The controversy has been going on along time about whether to follow the manufacturer's recommendations. Their concern is that there will be a lose of elevator authority or airflow disturbance over the horizontal stabilizer.

Ask a CFI!