Originally Posted by
PFGiardino
. why in a skid does the lower wing have a higher angle of attack, thus creating the rotation when stalling and creating a spin?
In any uncoordinated stall, the rudder will be turned towards the slower wing. This wing will stall first. It is this factor that makes the slipping stall a safer stall. The rudder is toward the high wing that, when stalled must fall through level before dropping into the spin mode. This gives you additional time to correct the problem. In a skid the low wing stalls first. You don't get the time or attitude opportunity that a slip-stall gives before going inverted. Neither stall is something you would want to happen turning final.
That being as we know in the turn the Wing producing more Lift also produces more drag... The byproduct of Lift is drag, but in a Skid the Rudder is slowing the low wing down more causing a lower angle of attack to the relative wing, therefore producing a stall on the low wing instead of the High wing???