Sure. A flare is a maneuver designed to flatten out the glide angle for landing, while at the same time bleeding off airspeed. As I'm sure you've noticed, commercial airliners make approaches with the nose actually pointed *up*, while in fact they are travelling *down*. If you flare properly, you'll have the nose a few degrees above the horizon, while the airplane is actually flying *almost* straight horizontally -- you want to make the last few feet of your descent very slowly to give the folks in the back a nice soft landing.

A slip approach is used to quickly lose altitude without making a radical maneuver (like pointing the nose down!). The simplistic version is that you use the rudder to "slip" the tail of the airplane sideways, which results in a more speedy loss of altitude while not having to change the pitch of the airplane. It's fun for pilots, but if you're not expecting it as a passenger it can be a little intimidating, especially in something as big as a 744.

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