Rockie: From the Angels website : Why don't the pilots wear G-suits? G-suits are designed with air bladders (pockets) which inflate and deflate to keep a pilots' blood from pooling in the pilots' legs while executing sharp, unpredicted combat maneuvers. Unlike combat flying, the Blue Angels demonstr...
You may work for a company that "expects" you to violate regulations, but be aware, that won't protect you if things go wrong. If it was an acceptable defence, I'm there are plenty of Hell's Angels strikers that would use it a defence. "I'm not guilty, the club told me to traffick those drugs or th...
Oh it was just an excerices for students in the textbook. It says things like a wing area of x, chord of y, and a CGwing to CGtail of z. Then you determine the stab area and draw the plane. It's basically just a sizing exercise. Do you have the type of profile of the vertical stab and a target spee...
Max, I think the weights on thew elevator are more for flutter /aerodynamic balance than stability. Test flights revealed that tail flutter was a problem. During high-speed flight, especially during dives [...] This phenomena is called Mach Tuck. The only solution is to slow down (without modificat...
FOR Crazymax I am not going to hall you out and insult you, but do have a question or two.. Have you ever flown a floatplane or done any low level flying? Do you know anything about what one learns or is taught when becoming a bush pilot, or float pilot, anything that involves flying low? Finally.....
Crazymax, I wholeheartedly support everything said by SuperDave. He has hit the nail right on the head. I cannot say it in such a diplomatic manner so I'll be a little more blunt. You are currently in a very selective and special group of pilots. That does not make you any better or worse than any ...
Is there a good reason to not wear G-Suits? As long as the plane is equipped with it, and its SOP for normal ops of that A/C, why ditch them for a demo? Do the Thunderbirds wear them? From what I read from various sources, the G-suit and Mask are in the way of the pilot. When the G-Suit inflates, i...
CrazyMax, Of course you're entitled to your opinion, and I welcome it...you're right, it is what this forum is about. However, another thing this forum could be about is striving for a better understanding of all the diverse niches we have in this industry. I'm sorry I am not aware of your backgrou...
The little bits of trivia that I ask candidates about IFR procedures, rules, and operational considerations can be found here. Some of them have only an application to military regs and procedures, but the rest of the studies provide the essential IFR and Met information for both the IFR and ATPL s...
Max, sorry to be a prick, but who the hell are you to nit pick? you get to fly jets, thats fantastic - but not for everyone. for some people its twin otters, what do you know about the flying done by the MAT down there? nothing! neither do i, but you don't see me looking down my nose at everyone th...
Meecka wrote:
I really don't see what the big deal is. Noone got hurt, no property was damaged. It was a neat video, kudos to the pilots the feat was well performed. Bravo.
It might be well done on this one, who know what will happen next? Will they want to push it farther?
Good God, The debates on this forum never cease to amaze me. Most people need to realize that flying an airplane really isn't brain surgery. You'd have to be trolling to call the flying on that video anywhere close to dangerous. If you're not completely drunk, brain-dead or totally incompetent, any...