[lawndart]

Ok... this thread has been dead for a while but I'll post to see what happens.

I finished up my check ride on Friday with a slip to a landing. The DPE asked for a forward slip. I asked of he wanted flaps or no flaps. He said it was my choice. The 152 will allow for slips with 20° of flaps but I elected to skip them to demonstrate that I could land without flaps.

I turned an early final, kicked my nose INTO the wind and applied opposite aileron. I slowed myself donw nicely and had a good steep and controlled decent going. The DPE then stated that I was not doing what he asked and I flip flopped into what I call a side slip.

I kicked the nose AWAY from the wind, dropped the opposite wing and finished the final onto the runway, landing with the plane aligned with the runway, on my upwind gear and rolling out to a full stop.

LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR... over the fence I would have converted from one to the other on my own. I would not land crabbed to the runway.

Now I am worried becuse I have had the DPE tell me I did something wrong, although I demostrated capability in either case and landed the no flapper just dandy. I asked him if he wanted me to do that over but he declined saying that I demomstrated my ability to perform slips and congratulated me on a fine check ride and welcomed me to the club.

So, can someone PLEASE clarify forward slip with relation to the wind. Or, do we just define forward slip as a cross controlled maneuvre used to control speed in a steep decent without respect to wind direction?

My instructor agreed with my actions as this is the methid that we have used thru the course of my training.