[lawndart]

Thanks Freddy....

I had it in my head that the forward slip was nose into the wind and side (as in landing cross wind) was nose away... Silly me. Somethings just get programmed in and are hard to dislodge. Lucky for me I recovered and demonstrated what the DPE really wanted without any problems. The field I fly out and in to is forever cross wind conditions and I have gotten quite used to side slips and IMHO am fairly proficcient (I don't screech a cross wind landing very often) to land in them.

I'll know next time I want to get fancy with an equipment failure drill (flaps, in this case) that I want to forward slip in the same direction I will side slip in the landing

The issue has never been a misunderstanding of what slips are and what they are used for... I've been lectured on this and it really missed the point of my question... not to mention raised my hackles quite a bit. If someone would have simply said (in other conversations) from the start that a forward slip is without regard to wind, that would have helped.

Perhaps I misunderstood something from my primary training. It's a moot point, that phase is over. Now I just need to go get some hours built up so I can get an instrument rating going.