Cross-Controlling the Airplane

[MikeOH]

5 hours ago, 1980Mooney said:

The outcome of this new policy will be that flight schools will abandon training at towered airports with close parallel runway operations. It is probably a good idea that makes sense.  
“real world the student unexpected overshoots and he panics.” - They should not be training there.  And for the rest of us, if we can’t maintain centerline at a busy parallel ops airport, then we deserve to be reported. 

I agree completely with your first paragraph. In fact, I wonder if that was the real purpose of the new policy: to drive out training ops! They probably can’t ban them outright, but the threat of certificate action against CFIs should do it.

If you can’t maintain centerline why should it matter from a violation point of view what the runway configuration is? If the incursion causes a “deal” then I think a pilot deviation is warranted. I’m comfortable with that and believe that’s the status quo.

My angst is with the mandatory pilot deviation for centerline transgressions stated in RHV’s policy seemingly without regard to circumstance.

[M Terry]

Slip for airspeed?

My F has speed brakes,,, that are broken and I'm too cheap to send them back for repair.

Slipping for altitude is easy, did that plenty with my CFI, but I can find very little written about using a slip to loose airspeed, in lieu of the speed brakes. At what speed can I enter a level flight slip and not put too much stress on the airframe?

[47U]

The developers have been salivating to close RHV for years.  Purchase of 100LL was banned a couple years ago.  Threatening certificate action for failure to maintain alignment with the runway centerline is just another scare tactic to intimidate pilots and instructors.  It’s an ambiguous standard.   What does ‘runway alignment’ to the ‘standard’ actually mean?  Are they monitoring radar returns?  Or  ADSB data?  Tower personnel visual sightings?  This is BS.  

I wonder what the AOPA is thinking?  

[Ragsf15e]

On 4/16/2023 at 10:20 AM, M Terry said:

Slip for airspeed?

My F has speed brakes,,, that are broken and I'm too cheap to send them back for repair.

Slipping for altitude is easy, did that plenty with my CFI, but I can find very little written about using a slip to loose airspeed, in lieu of the speed brakes. At what speed can I enter a level flight slip and not put too much stress on the airframe?

Less than maneuvering speed might be a good place to start, however altitude or airspeed are really the same thing.  They are just different forms of energy (potential/kinetic).  Trade the extra speed for a little extra altitude and then slip normally with all your drag out.  
 

If you’re going too fast (lets say on downwind looking for gear speed), level off or very slight climb with power idle until you get to gear speed, then configure with gear/flaps.  Now maybe since you were too fast initially, you’re now too high?  But now you’ve got lots of drag and you can slip at a more normal speed to reduce the extra altitude (potential energy).  Slipping at a high speed with gear and flaps up is not nearly as effective and potentially uncomfortable since you probably don’t practice that at a high speed.  It is still effective to slip clean if you just need to lose a little “energy” though.