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Airplane Crazy
By the way side slip is when your airplane is not flying straight. It's flying sideway when you are trying to lose altitude. Forward slip is when your airplane is flying straight for example when you are doing a corss wind landing. Although you are using rudder your longitudinal axis of the airplane is aligned with the runway. Plus go by things your instructor tells you that way if the examiner finds you wrong you might just get to slide. Some times if you say something wrong and you can prove you were tought it wrong like this examiner will let you slide saying ok I'll tell you the right way and from now on go by my way. That happened to a friend of mine.
Uh, last time I checked doing a cross wind landing is a side slip. It counter intuitive because the longitudinal axis is pointed down the runway and you are tracking a straight line. In a forward slip you are still traveling forward and tracking a straight line but you are essentially "sideways." The picture of the forward slip is correct in the AFH on page 8-11. The one of the side slip is not. Read the paragraphs on pages 8-10 and 8-11 then you will understand what I am saying.