Pretty sure #1 isn't accurate. I wasn't required to forward slip (or side slip, ...

dbenjamin · on Dec 19, 2016

#1 is not accurate but for different reasons.

A forward slip is absolutely required for a PPL checkride and has been for decades (if you'd like a source, see page 45 of the definitive FAA ACS: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/media/priva...).

However, transport category aircraft (among other issues) have swept wings, which are far less stable in a slip - so slips are neither taught nor recommended for jets.

phumbe · on Dec 19, 2016

Looks like forward slip to landing has been in the Private Pilot Practical Test Standards [1] since at least Nov 2011

[1][PDF] https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/test_standards/...

dbenjamin · on Dec 19, 2016

Here's it as a required maneuver in 1995 :)

https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...

crikli · on Dec 19, 2016

Huh. I'm wrong then obviously. Wonder if it's never come up as I tend to forward slip on crosswind landings. Don't recall a DPE ever even mentioning slips.