I was taught to fly...by a WW2 HellCat pilot... with thousands of "traps".....slips were taught to me almost at day one.....I'm an advocate of such flying ...for many... many times the forward slip saved my bacon...I have done a lot of aerial photography flying and the small airports in the middle of no where... are usually short....with lotsa obstacles (lotsa deer) on both ends....The use of slips are REQUIRED "IF" you wanna stay alive...."IF" you want to get the photos back safety.... never forget ....the day you are not the "master" of your craft...STAY ON THE GROUND!!!
Great content, Joel! My "small" Boeing is a Stearman, but your videos make me really miss my Cub. I'd buy a PA-11 tomorrow if I had the hangar for it. I was slipping my J-3 once with a strong left summer crosswind down in Houston. Like your preferred slip, a right slip wouldn't have been effective, you know what's coming next! The resultant cross-cockpit hurricane took my baseball cap and glasses off and ejected them both from the cockpit at about three hundred feet. (Earplugs, no headsets.) Never did get them back. I still take a perverse amount of pride in the fact that my 1942 airplanes is the newest aircraft I've ever owned.
Literally I always slip in. My instructor said anything over 500’ a minute is considered “not a stabilized approach”. I said I want this next one to be a touch and go we’re going around again. I took him on a long down wind and said engines out now what?! He looked at my like the highway over there. I said I was here the same spot 1,000 feet higher and we’d make the runway. This is why I’m always high as long as possible and slip in. Altitude is your friend and the longer I have in the air the more control I have. I slip so fat everytime on final. It’s a must for me.
Very nice flight demo, Joe. I was flying with my dad as soon as I could sit in the seat. He always slipped when needed or wanted, so slips were never a big deal to me. Early teen years flying with an old friend in his Stinson, he came in high, cussed a bit that we were going to go around. I looked at him and said just slip it in, he said show me, and I did, he was a bit surprised. Always a tool in the box that can really help you. I also agree about those early morning flights. Best time of day.
Had my discovery flight there. A ppl now buying a PA-28 160 and live near ILG where the plane will probably be kept. Hopefully I’ll get to see you in the sky this year. Fly safe. Happy New Year.
Again Joe,!!!…. Now I gotta go fly my Chief!!… every time I watch one of your videos, I gotta go fly!… I found a primo grass field this week & im gonna go do some nice juicy slips into it!… thanks brotha,👍🏻…keep the shiny side UP!
As much as we Cub pilots love to slip, there are passengers who think they are going to die when you hang in the sky like this. After scaring several people, I started to brief them that I might slip while approaching, demonstrating them earlier in flight how it feels by flying a soft slip. When they are prepared, they usually like it a lot!
Dutch Rolls are a great tool to really get the feel of the aircraft and mixing the controls along with slips all of them used properly will make us all more proficient! Excellent video!
Great video. Slips are one of the reasons I love flying my J-3. It makes me get better. And without slipping in the Pitts, approaches were always a bit blind. *Every single pilot* should be familiar with and completely comfortable slipping (or getting that way). It can make all the difference in the world in a tough spot/moment.
You talk so much about slips you should be known as Slippery Joe! But jokes aside, I agree 100% and I am very thankful for you making solid videos on basic stick and rudder skills. Keep it up, man! And happy new year from Norway! RN I suppose its another five hours until 2025 over there. We are an hour in, and so far the earth hasnt opened up and aliens have nit attacked or anything like that. We just might be fine…
Very nice video on slips 👍🏻👍🏻 Perfect demonstrations in various scenarios. I learned to fly on a hilltop runway that was under 1200’ and slips were essential to have available. Thanks for compiling this video! Cheers 🍺🍺
I loved watching you slip your lovely Cub. I also used the slip many, many times in my Experimental Amateur Built airplane (N63955 - now out of service and off the N number list). I had a friend who lived on a farm and I visited him quite often. TALL pines at each end of his farm. Sliped in from eitheer end of his "grass runway." Like you said: It just fell out of the sky. I didn't have a great deal of ground to work with, so I HAD TO SLIP. Loved your video, was very instructional. (Who would fly a GA plane if you could fly a cub or an amateaur built plane? smile.
When I was working on my tailwheel endorsement, I once found myself high and close on base. I thought to myself: "OK, how do I fix this?" I'd been flying for years and I knew how to slip--I just hadn't done it for a long time. I turned final, slipped the airplane (an Aeronca Chief), and made a passable three-point. My instructor said nothing until we were rolling out, and then he said: "Nice slip, but you could have planned your pattern a little better."
Great video like always! Well since I’m training in Champs and Cubs, if it wasn’t for slipping I would have a lot more go arounds! In my case, by learning this, it has built up my confidence and the ability of an airplane.
Great video (both content and visuals). When flying small (and old and draggy) airplanes I like to keep some energy in the bank when in the pattern, and the slip is just the way to control the energy state. With newer planes (flaps, less drag, less rudder authority) a slight slip when turning final can help to establish Vref.
I agree with you on when to fly. I've been at the airport on an early weekend morning, BEAUTIFUL, and NOBODY is there but me and the guy in the tower. What a waste of a great morning.
My only tip is when you slip if you have right and left tanks like in our Cherokee 6 the fuel pickup is on the inboard side of the wing so when on the right tank drop the left wing and vice versa… now in our Ercoupe it is a terrible slipper lol
As always.. Great videos and useful content. Curious on how you capture and display the telemetry data. I have been doing some videos on my journey with a 2010 Carbon Cub SS I purchased this year in June. Yu may even already have a video on that very topic.? I also plan to get a 360 setup using your video on that as well. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.!!
awesome video thank you. I can see your base (hometown airport) is flying w I assume. Im right there aswell and got my ppl at vay. Super nice especially in the morning when no one is out
@@Bananasssssssss Yeah it is! Im in flight training over at TTN now so im sure ive seen ur plane haha. Do you recommend becoming a cfi to get to the airlines the fastest way possible?
Another great video. Have you ever compared your IAS, while in a slip, to actual airspeed. Given that the pitot and static ports are affected during the slip, I wonder what the delta is ?
Yep, Canadian Boeing 767 ran out of fuel due to kg-lb calculation error at 41,000 ft. Captain had glider and slipping experience and safely landed the airplane with minimal damage and no injuries at the Gimli Motorsporks Park (an old airport) in Manitoba. Wow.
Another benefit of a forward slip is not needing full flaps, which interfere with a quick decsion to go around. I've seen some instructors on nose draggers who insist that students practice full flap approaches and not slips. Sad really.
When you are talking slips you might want to clarify if you’re talking about a forward or side slip, as you know they’re two different animals. If it is true you can’t side slip an airliner, well, then it would be impossible to execute a proper x-wind landing. It amazes me how many professional pilots touch down in a crab. It’s a very high percentage. Explaining the x-wind landing should be an interview question. If one cannot explain it they surely can’t execute it. Until one is comfortable flaring with the controls crossed they will not make good x-wind landings. You have surely witnessed many people you fly with touch down in a crab. You however, have excellent stick-n-rudder skills and your little J-3 is a work of art. Thx for all the great videos.
I’m contacting the FFA as this video clearly demonstrates you exerting skill and at points you come dangerously close to enjoying flying.
Greatest…. Comment…. EVER.
I was taught to fly...by a WW2 HellCat pilot... with thousands of "traps".....slips were taught to me almost at day one.....I'm an advocate of such flying ...for many... many times the forward slip saved my bacon...I have done a lot of aerial photography flying and the small airports in the middle of no where... are usually short....with lotsa obstacles (lotsa deer) on both ends....The use of slips are REQUIRED "IF" you wanna stay alive...."IF" you want to get the photos back safety.... never forget ....the day you are not the "master" of your craft...STAY ON THE GROUND!!!
Great content, Joel!
My "small" Boeing is a Stearman, but your videos make me really miss my Cub. I'd buy a PA-11 tomorrow if I had the hangar for it.
I was slipping my J-3 once with a strong left summer crosswind down in Houston. Like your preferred slip, a right slip wouldn't have been effective, you know what's coming next!
The resultant cross-cockpit hurricane took my baseball cap and glasses off and ejected them both from the cockpit at about three hundred feet. (Earplugs, no headsets.) Never did get them back.
I still take a perverse amount of pride in the fact that my 1942 airplanes is the newest aircraft I've ever owned.
Once I learned how fun slipping was, I annoyed my flight instructor by frequently slipping on final. That is... until he said "knock it off". 🤣
Sounds familiar, they can be addicting! 😂, lol
Literally I always slip in. My instructor said anything over 500’ a minute is considered “not a stabilized approach”. I said I want this next one to be a touch and go we’re going around again. I took him on a long down wind and said engines out now what?! He looked at my like the highway over there. I said I was here the same spot 1,000 feet higher and we’d make the runway. This is why I’m always high as long as possible and slip in. Altitude is your friend and the longer I have in the air the more control I have. I slip so fat everytime on final. It’s a must for me.
Very nice flight demo, Joe.
I was flying with my dad as soon as I could sit in the seat. He always slipped when needed or wanted, so slips were never a big deal to me.
Early teen years flying with an old friend in his Stinson, he came in high, cussed a bit that we were going to go around. I looked at him and said just slip it in, he said show me, and I did, he was a bit surprised.
Always a tool in the box that can really help you.
I also agree about those early morning flights. Best time of day.
Had my discovery flight there. A ppl now buying a PA-28 160 and live near ILG where the plane will probably be kept. Hopefully I’ll get to see you in the sky this year. Fly safe. Happy New Year.
Again Joe,!!!…. Now I gotta go fly my Chief!!… every time I watch one of your videos, I gotta go fly!… I found a primo grass field this week & im gonna go do some nice juicy slips into it!… thanks brotha,👍🏻…keep the shiny side UP!
Excellent video! Love the camera work, especially the views from behind the aircraft.
As much as we Cub pilots love to slip, there are passengers who think they are going to die when you hang in the sky like this. After scaring several people, I started to brief them that I might slip while approaching, demonstrating them earlier in flight how it feels by flying a soft slip. When they are prepared, they usually like it a lot!
Give them some basic instruction and let them do some slips under close supervision. Their anxiety disappears quickly.
Dutch Rolls are a great tool to really get the feel of the aircraft and mixing the controls along with slips all of them used properly will make us all more proficient! Excellent video!
Great video. Slips are one of the reasons I love flying my J-3. It makes me get better. And without slipping in the Pitts, approaches were always a bit blind. *Every single pilot* should be familiar with and completely comfortable slipping (or getting that way). It can make all the difference in the world in a tough spot/moment.
well said
You talk so much about slips you should be known as Slippery Joe! But jokes aside, I agree 100% and I am very thankful for you making solid videos on basic stick and rudder skills. Keep it up, man!
And happy new year from Norway! RN I suppose its another five hours until 2025 over there. We are an hour in, and so far the earth hasnt opened up and aliens have nit attacked or anything like that. We just might be fine…
Very nice video on slips 👍🏻👍🏻
Perfect demonstrations in various scenarios.
I learned to fly on a hilltop runway that was under 1200’ and slips were essential to have available.
Thanks for compiling this video!
Cheers 🍺🍺
Corben Baby Ace pilot, we don’t need no flaps! You have more control in a slip than yo do on the road! Great video. Wish I could fly with you.
Thanks for the slip video, Joe! So fun to watch!
I loved watching you slip your lovely Cub. I also used the slip many, many times in my Experimental Amateur Built airplane (N63955 - now out of service and off the N number list). I had a friend who lived on a farm and I visited him quite often. TALL pines at each end of his farm. Sliped in from eitheer end of his "grass runway." Like you said: It just fell out of the sky. I didn't have a great deal of ground to work with, so I HAD TO SLIP. Loved your video, was very instructional. (Who would fly a GA plane if you could fly a cub or an amateaur built plane? smile.
I used a slip in my power off 180 today, turned it from a complete failure into a perfect landing on the thousand footers
When I was working on my tailwheel endorsement, I once found myself high and close on base. I thought to myself: "OK, how do I fix this?" I'd been flying for years and I knew how to slip--I just hadn't done it for a long time. I turned final, slipped the airplane (an Aeronca Chief), and made a passable three-point. My instructor said nothing until we were rolling out, and then he said: "Nice slip, but you could have planned your pattern a little better."
Great video like always! Well since I’m training in Champs and Cubs, if it wasn’t for slipping I would have a lot more go arounds! In my case, by learning this, it has built up my confidence and the ability of an airplane.
So glad I learned to fly in a J-3. Learning slips came early in 1958!
Slips are one of the funnest parts of flying.❤❤❤
agreed
Nice job Joe! Couldn’t have done it any better myself.
Great video (both content and visuals). When flying small (and old and draggy) airplanes I like to keep some energy in the bank when in the pattern, and the slip is just the way to control the energy state. With newer planes (flaps, less drag, less rudder authority) a slight slip when turning final can help to establish Vref.
I saw 45 on climb out and was like Oh Oh but realised it is GPS speed not airspeed. Nicely done video.
Thanks John!
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
Another great video! I need to get with an instructor to work on these.
Enjoyed this
Thanks Joe!
I agree with you on when to fly. I've been at the airport on an early weekend morning, BEAUTIFUL, and NOBODY is there but me and the guy in the tower. What a waste of a great morning.
Cubs were made for this!!
I used to regularly slip the A300 as needed, rudder full deflection. Worked great. Nothing in our manuals forbade it…
Slipping is a must on final for me everytime. Keep altitude and lose it when I want to.
This is how I feel flying the C208 in MSFS, and I can only imagine the rush in real life in a Cub
Nice! Finally using all this years years photoage. I can’t wait Joe 2025 is going to be EPIC!
My only tip is when you slip if you have right and left tanks like in our Cherokee 6 the fuel pickup is on the inboard side of the wing so when on the right tank drop the left wing and vice versa… now in our Ercoupe it is a terrible slipper lol
As always.. Great videos and useful content. Curious on how you capture and display the telemetry data. I have been doing some videos on my journey with a 2010 Carbon Cub SS I purchased this year in June. Yu may even already have a video on that very topic.? I also plan to get a 360 setup using your video on that as well. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.!!
awesome video thank you. I can see your base (hometown airport) is flying w I assume. Im right there aswell and got my ppl at vay. Super nice especially in the morning when no one is out
Yup! Home sweet home. Really pretty area to fly just east of the W
@@Bananasssssssss Yeah it is! Im in flight training over at TTN now so im sure ive seen ur plane haha. Do you recommend becoming a cfi to get to the airlines the fastest way possible?
Another great video. Have you ever compared your IAS, while in a slip, to actual airspeed. Given that the pitot and static ports are affected during the slip, I wonder what the delta is ?
Yep, Canadian Boeing 767 ran out of fuel due to kg-lb calculation error at 41,000 ft. Captain had glider and slipping experience and safely landed the airplane with minimal damage and no injuries at the Gimli Motorsporks Park (an old airport) in Manitoba. Wow.
I've only slipped when already lined up on final. What's the best technique for slipping safely in a turn from downwind to final?
Another benefit of a forward slip is not needing full flaps, which interfere with a quick decsion to go around. I've seen some instructors on nose draggers who insist that students practice full flap approaches and not slips. Sad really.
Q: Why not use idle power for the entire approach?
I believe I did. Any RPMS are from windmilling prop
How do you get the GPS overlays for speed/altitude/VS?
Id explain it but its just easier to share this :) A video on how to add em
ruclips.net/video/GmvQNqLDkeQ/видео.html
@ Perfect thank you!
I'd argue that stall speed goes down while in a slip....but I get lots of pushback with that statement
How so? I'm curious your thoughts.
When you are talking slips you might want to clarify if you’re talking about a forward or side slip, as you know they’re two different animals. If it is true you can’t side slip an airliner, well, then it would be impossible to execute a proper x-wind landing. It amazes me how many professional pilots touch down in a crab. It’s a very high percentage. Explaining the x-wind landing should be an interview question. If one cannot explain it they surely can’t execute it. Until one is comfortable flaring with the controls crossed they will not make good x-wind landings. You have surely witnessed many people you fly with touch down in a crab. You however, have excellent stick-n-rudder skills and your little J-3 is a work of art. Thx for all the great videos.
Well said!!
Of course you know he is a career airline pilot of heavies right?
Absolutely.
I feel like Deja vu. That or you’re re-running old video clips.
Excellent demonstration and explanation Joe. A slip is such a useful tool every pilot should have in their pocket. Well done sir!! 🫡
"Just slip it in, it's really easy. All you should need is two fingers."
- My CFI
Too bad that I can’t hear you…
Lol, left ear only?
Amen to that!!! Too bad those Korean pilots didn’t study the Gimli Glider…