I’ve slipped a C-5 (660,000 lbs) on a tactical approach into a special ops field first night of Gulf War II. It was a better option than going around. Works great.

Just came across this. Im a low hr pilot and think learning slipping early has saved me a lot of trouble at least once. In the middle of a very hot day in the mountains, stupid me looked at the sky and thought that it did not look _that_ windy. Well, it was. After ten minutes, I knew I was in over my head and turned back to the airfield. It was so gusty that while on downwind, my groundspeed was suddenly 26kts higher than my airspeed. I tried to compensate for the strong wind when turning final, but shortly after after turning, it dwindled away and I was high and fast. In these gusty conditions I did NOT want to go around unless I could help it. If a strong gust caught me at the wrong time in the pattern I could be in serious trouble. The sooner I could get down the betyer. Thankfully, I was flying a Cub, and slipping was one of the things I really enjoyed practicing, and had been doing a bit for fun. So down I went, and I got on the ground before the next gust. While I was putting the bird away in the hangar, the winds got quite a bit worse. It was definetely way beyond my skill! Very happy I could grab the lucky opportunity that offered itself! Learned a bit about hot days in the mountains, and the usefulness of slipping!

You kick pedals better than most - thats a perfect airplane.

When I was a 5 hour student, my instructor showed me how to slip - cool I thought. A few howlers later I screwed up and turned base right over the end of the runway. “What are you going to do now?!”my instructor yelled at me (he was not a nice man). I looked at him and said, “Watch THIS!” I jammed my left foot down as I threw the control yoke right and we dropped like a rock, landing with plenty of runway to spare. I was SO proud of myself.

Great cinematography, narration, and technical details. Please post more!

I use a tighter pattern on the premise, that when the engine does quit, I’ll be plenty close enough to land on a smooth runway…it requires slipping on every approach, so much so that I find a normal powered approach leaves me a little squeamish especially with obstacles like trees and power lines just 20’-50’ below my gear!

I loved 'slipping'...I practiced it a lot when I flew. You're sharp on the controls...it's a video game to you at this point. Nice flying.

01:52 "most Airbus pilots don't even realize airplane has a rudder" Lol, made my day! Edit: Highly valuable video and rear spot view source dazzled me! Invisible rod extending from tail wheel?

I was taught how to slip in a glider. It works just as well as it does in your Cub.

Fun and informative! I rarely land without slipping as my planes don't have flaps and there are obstructions at either end of the grass strip I fly from. As you say - they are useful but they're also a lot of fun.

Best videos on the internet. Thanks Joe!

LOVE this, Joe! After 350+ hours of Stearman flying, you get pretty comfortable with slips. Very important skill, IMO, regardless of airplane type (GA anyway)…but especially for taildraggers. I practice slips ALL th time and tell my students, “You never know when you’ll need one”…and regardless, they’re just so much darned fun! Case in point this week…I accompanied the new owner of my 7ECA from FL to OH. After some challenging flying due to lots of convective activity and trying to avoid cells, we’re approaching our interim destination in rural GA right before dark. Straight in approach to a grass strip because light is failing fast. Over the trees I realise the optical illusion has me 600’ higher than I thought (landing over 100’ pines!). Instant ADM needed…go around and try again, or maximum slip to land within the available 3000’. No brainer, no stress…slipped and landed within 1200 feet. Student was super impressed, hosts at the airpark thought I was just showing off. Whatever - it was a piece of cake because I’ve done so many. Routinely slip right down to the runway, as you demonstrate. Good, timely practice for me…I’m buying a Waco YMF-5, and like the Stearman, there is zero forward visibility. If you want to land that thing safely, your only option is a slip. Happy flying my friend…seems you really know how to have fun! My Stearman was based in Van Sant for many years, btw, and was George Taylor’s personal airplane in the 80s (his first restoration). Nice part of the world…except for January and February 🤣

Such a great lesson. Thanks for sharing!

Great video! The side slip is unfortunately overlooked by many. Thanks for bringing this subject to light.

Loved it thanks Joe. Beautifully captured and produced. Really appreciate all the effort you put in. I performed a couple of precautionary forced landings (practice engine out) with my CFI in the cub the other day. It was near impossible to land on target without the aid of slipping

Really enjoy your videos -- great aviation insights, great video work, and love the views of rural NJ. I fly a Cessna 180 -- the tail wheel techniques are cool to watch from the tail view. One comment on slips burned into me -- keep an eye on airspeed. Don't allow the nose to get high -- stalls at low altitude are tough. Keep 'em coming.

Great video, Joe...👍

Slipping a great video in Joe! I was taught to slip in a 152 during my student days & use it fairly often. A great maneouvre!

Great, great instructional video. Instrument overlays were excellent. My CFI (and flight school) taught and emphasized that slips (especially full on an app when your high), as you said several times, are an essential piloting skill. Thanks as always Joe!

About to solo. Was out with my instructor and hadn’t really done a slip yet so when I came in high I tried my first. Greased her (the cub) in, taxied off the runway, reset the trim and carb heat, and then changed my pants😂 it was fun but boy did it feel crazy. Finally got the hang of it. Loved this video keep up the great content!

Awesome how confidently you fly that plane like your taking a walk.

I agree, slips are a very effective tool and a skill that should be mastered to increase pilot options/safety in a variety of situations. I plan to practice them when I get my flight training and teach them to my students once I am a cfi.

When I learned to fly a Citabria the instructor had to teach me how to slip. I had never done one in a 152 because it had flaps, and that instructor never showed me how to slip. That was in 1980. Years later I gently slipped a B727. It can be done. And if you think about it, you're almost slipping in an Airbus when you go to de crab during a strong crosswind landing. You're putting in L aileron for example, while kicking the right rudder. You're just doing it more gently and keeping the longitudinal axis of the jet pointed directly down the runway as opposed to flying it sideways. And of course, you need to be LOW enough that the normal law will allow you to do so. But, being able to slip well is a skill that can help you in all airplanes. For example, I've heard of guys on fire slipping to keep the smoke away from the windscreen so they can see the runway. Very nice vid. Jealous old man here wishing you well. I'd love to have access to a cub and a grass strip.

exceptional job, thanks for the video

Good work, Joe!!

Nice job Joe.

Man that is one of the sweetest videos I’ve seen!! Sick! I definitely have been under utilizing slips on my J3! Do you worry about getting to slow/uncoordinated? I think that is why I am maybe too shy slipping it… awesome video!! If you ever came to NC I would love to fly with you and get some tricks!!

7ac champ I learned in was a great slipper!

Amazing photography.

Well made video, this is exactly what my flight instructor is teaching me. I was shocked too see how effective they truly are, I mean when I tried it with him. I bet it won't work as well in a Diamond da20 as it does in a cub but still. Seriously, well made video and very informative.

Still slips feel scary for me, maybe because I rarely do them. Will start practising them every time I fly from now on. Thank you!

Doing most of my primary training in a 65hp Luscombe, slipping was a staple of the pattern. Way shorter approach, great way to drop altitude, but in a lot of airplanes, it gives a much better view of the touchdown point!

Great video as always Joe, thanks. Now go knock the morning bugs off your aeroplane.

Cool Joe....Brazil show u

Thank You

Very nice.

Very good video my friend

👋🏻 from Gimli Manitoba. I fly a Kitfox and slipping can be an essential skill.

Smooth.

The King of Slips!!!

Love your videos! They help me out a lot in my cub! What software and equipment do you use for the GPS data and how did you get your flight path overlayed on the map?

Love slipping. Trim for 60, crank 'er over and let the air out. Great for clearing the 50' tree nearly on centerline not quite 700 feet from the numbers (25 at 9N1). Airnav says 17/1 glideslope, and 25 is a 5% uphill. Interesting challenge. It's flat unobstructed runways that unnerve me 😅!

The A300 slips just as nicely as my Pitts did. Used to do it with some regularity before the company disallowed it.

I prefer the right rudder left aileron when slipping too. Doing it the other way feels so awkward for some reason. Love the videos. The comment about Airbus pilots not knowing there’s a rudder made me laugh.😂 Have you flown any other tailwheel airplanes?

Love your work! I’m not looking to make content, but just for rewatching my flights, how do you integrate the flight gauges into your videos?

Great videos as usual Joe! Thanks for sharing. If you had to choose a first plane for a beginner is a J3 a good choice or would recommend something newer? I dream of owning a 1940-1943 J3 or L4 but I often wonder if I would be better of with something like an ultralight to start.

I go out to Allen's and enjoy watching you enjoy your mornings.

In Brazil we´ve a similar plane Cub...call Paulistinha....I had flown one in 2009

The one-eyed pilot of this TACA flight had to slip to get over a fence on final, landing it deadstick on a levee after losing both engines in a thunderstorm off New Orleans. They flew the airplane out after repairing the engines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110

"the two useless things in aviation are the runway behind you and the altitude above you" And *_FUEL_* in the *_TRUCK!!!_*

My A.C. may or may not have slipped the KC-135 on short final as a demo when I asked if the 135 could be slipped. I may or may not have been the Boom Operator on that flight and I may or may not have been nervous.

Bananasssss! I think Tom Petty sang about this. He called it Free Falling! =]

Great video. Love your J3 ❤ She looks even older than mine (1946). A question to your video: How did you add those gauges to the video?

Great video as always man! Any advice for someone about to become an instructor?

simply explained, and executed! Excellent video!

What are your thoughts on IAS during a slip? I have a pitot and static port on the left side, and the delta between those pressures can get complicated (especially in a crosswind). I generally ignore the IAS and just fly by feel. Thoughts?

It’s kind of scary and uncomfortable since you’re doing full rudder in one direction and a lot of aileron in the other. You just have to make sure you don’t stall or you going for a spin. Remember your slipstream changes so your airspeed going to appear to be a lot slower than you really are. If you tip the nose down you’re going to pick up a lot of airspeed as you straighten out.

Great video! How did you get the view from the back of the aircraft? Drone? I owned a 1946 Cessna 120, no electrical system or flaps so had to slip it all the time. I also flew a friends 1938 J3 from western Okla to Oshkosh air show in 1978. No radios so had FAA waiver. Entered the downwind per instructions but had the J3 fire walled just trying to keep up with the other aircraft. Came over threshold too fast and high. Had to do a steep slip to get down and bleed off airspeed. When I touched down a guy next to the runway was frantically waving me off the runway into the grass. As I rolled off the runway a Ford Tri-Motor landed. He was on my tail the whole way down. Exciting times flying that J3.

Folks, notice how Joe has the mic close to his lips but he isn’t constantly making those silly duck lips and smooching it? THAT is how/where to place/treat the mic.

Great content. I notice that your VHF voice is same as normal. What is it about pilots that they go voice fry on VHF?

Nice job! I use my cub all the time with slips. What engine do you have in it?

Loved watching you come down the runway in a slip. A Thing of beauty. Really Appreciate your camera work. Thanks Joe

Great video! I did not see it, but do you have to trim the Cub much in the pattern?

I fly in the morning before work all the time :)

"Most airbus pilots dont even realize it has a rudder" 🤣

Thanks for the video!

Slipping is an essential tool of a skilled pilot, but you need a plane with some rudder. Flew a Cessna 172 not too long ago, rudder was completely anemic. Give me a tail dragger any day.

What do you use the for cool tail camera shot? I'd like to do that with my Maule.

Cub King! btw I wondered to you have the original 65hp or did you go 85hp? I'd think the way you play with the trees 85 would be nice.🤷‍♂️

Great videos.

I fly sailplanes. Not more than 16 solo flights. Slips are fun but freak me out because the airspeed indicator goes all wonky with the indirect airflow and becomes useless so I always worry I might be going too slow.

Amazing opening scene , great filming That morning weather was so beautiful, even I could feel it through my screen . Very nice tutorial with nice explanations. 😊

hey, where did you get that rad shirt?

Slightly daft question.. why do folks fly cubs from the rearmost seat? I was wondering if it relates to the rearwood CG helping keep the taildragger more stable?

Perfect. Thank you! But isn't it a bit dangerous to slip at literally the stalling speed? It was showing 40 mph!

How do you get the view from behind the tail feathers ?

Are you still instructing? Looks like you’re close to me and I gotta get back in to it.

How do you rig the tail camera?

"most airbus pilots don't even realize they have a rudder" :)

Do you recommend wings level or ball to middle first when coming out?

I know you are way above those power lines. But from my iPad point of view you look so close to them 😳

Thinking of getting a canard, no flaps, can you slip a canard?

Whats better Luscombe or cub.

But uncoordinated on final will immediately kill you! 😅

I keep approaches tight and slip it everytime. I’d rather have the extra altitude if my 65 year old engine decides to bite the dust

No

"I always slip to the left"?!?!?@ if the wind is quartering from the right. Or if you are turning right, you are skidding and risking a stall-spin. I am sure you do it right, but the explanation seems misguiding?

Please make more videos