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Re:Gimli Glider by phumbe on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:43PM (#13208665)
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/...

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Re:Gimli Glider by dbenjamin on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:00PM (#13208730)
Here's it as a required maneuver in 1995 :)

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

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Re:Gimli Glider by crikli on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:54PM (#13208703)
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.
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