Anyone else ever have to fight the urge to...

[mcrit]

.....kick off the auto pilot and barrel roll?

[bmc]

Say again equipment type.

[Sidebar]

.....kick off the auto pilot and barrel roll?

Frequently!

[flatface]

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[Colonel Sanders]

Only when the cloud ceiling is low.

[Tail-Chaser]

[pdw]

Jan 10 2007 3:30am in a learjet 35A near Columbus Ohio it didn't work so good ... never heard any more about it. The Captain somehow lost control which bent a wingspar and ailerons but they landed ... were OK.

Always wondered how much the loading can have to do with success or failure. I don't think Tex Johnson would have had much of a load along ... but not sure about this crew.

[iflyforpie]

Yes..... all of the time.

Well..... except I don't have autopilot and I usually do wind up doing a wing over or some lazy 8s instead just to keep it legal....

[Colonel Sanders]

The whole aerobatic "unusual attitude" is something
that needs to be viewed in terms of your frame of
reference. For example, from our frame of reference
all airplanes in Australia are continually doing aerobatics,
as they take off, fly and land inverted. They are very
good pilots down there, to be able to do that.

[iflyforpie]

Not if they have one of these airplanes....

[ScudRunner]

Jan 10 2007 3:30am in a learjet 35A near Columbus Ohio it didn't work so good ... never heard any more about it. The Captain somehow lost control which bent a wingspar and ailerons but they landed ... were OK.

Always wondered how much the loading can have to do with success or failure. I don't think Tex Johnson would have had much of a load along ... but not sure about this crew.

http://youtu.be/PNAgwxkbixM

Lears Roll just fine in the right hands.... as do most airplanes.

[cap41]

love to try on a 150 commuter.

[mcrit]

Say again equipment type.

The type that won't let me give in to the urge.

[Dash-Ate]

By its title I thought this was going to be another "Mile High Club" thread.

[Colonel Sanders]

love to try on a 150 commuter

Funny you mention that. In his younger days, Bob
Hoover found out that there was a very attractive
young female flight instructor at a nearby civilian
airport.

So of course, he signed up for flight lessons. And
he played the yokel. "That knob there?" and so on.

Finally Bob's Big Day arrived. She sent him solo,
and gosh, he did a beautiful surface level aerobatic
sequence in that buck fifty. She had a fit, until she
noticed all the air force guys hooting and hollering,
who had been hiding before the flight. She'd been
had.

Over the decades, other people have played this
elaborate trick. If memory serves, none other
than Ed Broadbent - not the person that immediately
comes to mind, when you think of a great sense
of humour - was involved in a similar episode.

Do remember that you aren't Bob Hoover. These
days, Bob Hoover probably isn't Bob Hoover any
more - it sucks getting old, which the youngsters
here probably won't understand.

But in his prime, Bob Hoover's idea of a self-checkout
in a (literally) foreign, new, single-seat hot aerobatic
airplane, involved 1/2 rolling upside down on takeoff
and descending back down into inverted ground effect.

There only a tiny handful of pilots that ever attain
that level of stick & rudder proficiency. Odds are,
you aren't one of them, so don't do acro in your
buck fifty.

[cap41]

THe odds are correct. Im only a 100 hour hero. But i know enough to be safe. Im a little older than most 100 hour PPL s< i get the urge but common sense prevails.