Six Flags over Hell (HUMOR)

[AntiKev]

But that didn't stop from lots of high G turns, usually at about 75 degree bank, where we would climb, and around 110 degree bank, where we'd descend.

Sounds like a modified Chandelle. Which by the way is NOT TECHNIALLY aerobatics, but it is a maneouver required for a commercial flight test over here.

[AnAmericanMother]

So long as I am the one flying, I never even begin to get ill. I can do anything I want, rolls, spins, loops, etc., and never have a problem. But as soon as the instructor (and/or the owner of the plane) takes the controls, any maneuvers will get me sweaty and fighting the hurl instinct.

Me too. Long as I'm on the stick, no sweat. Somebody else doing the flying, it's queasy city. I've never actually lost it (even when my 8 month old daughter did lose it in my lap while I was flying right seat in my dad's Cessna 210) but I have come DOGGONE close . . .

[Professional Engineer]

Thanks Sam. This is hilarious LMAO!!!!

[MontanaBeth]

That was a crack up! It's still my dream to go up in one of those things...even after reading this!

Montanabeth

[bjcintennessee]

It's still my dream to go up in one of those things...

Mine too! Later this month my husband and I get to spend three nights on our son's aircraft carrier while it returns to Norfolk. I've been wondering if I asked really, really nice -- o-k, begged -- if they'd let ride in one of their jets.

[MissAmericanPie]

"Two Bags", ROFLOL. I really don't know how these pilots get use it. There was a place locally, you suited up, jumped in the cockpit of the flight simulator and had an air battle. I made a very impressive score of 14 for someone who had the stick nailed to the right for the entire time and didn't even realize it.

I got out of the cockpit,air sick, and ready to hurl even after being no more than ten feet or so off the ground.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the humor break!

[msdrby]

"Two Bags."

ROFL... perfect call.

[bootless]

"Two Bags" - now THERE's a good Freeper name!

(And a ping to my flying friends.)

I've only had one real experience with aerobatics (and I wasn't flying) in a sweet RV-4, but I loved it. I'll relay the story when I'm done working.

I had a couple of experiences with the sick sack - one because of a CO leak into the back seat of a Piper Cherokee (oh joy), and another over the NV/UT desert - a victim of heat, moderate chop, and a cold. Yuck.

But I *love* going upside down! If I ever got a chance for that kind of ride, I'd take it in a second. I love bananas.

[helives]

thanks mitch.......that was funny as and errrrr it actually sounds like fun......I would go if asked thats for sure

[SkyPilot]

Thanks,

I read this on an e-mail about 2 years ago.

[185JHP]

Once upon a time there was an FR screenname "grobdriver."

[Maigrey]

The rig that Dubya flew in out to the Lincoln was an S-3B Viking.

This is a S-3B Viking

I actually got to see one last week at the local naval base. My Mom was impressed that I knew some of the details of the craft. (She likes watching planes come and go...)

[blackie]

Damn ~ that's funny! :):)

It wouldn't stop me from going ~ if I had the chance.

[Criminal Number 18F]

what's the max altitude one can (reasonablly) safely auto-rotate from in say a UH-1, Hughes 369 (UT-6?), etc.?

As long as you can safely fly at that altitude, and don't lose RPM transitioning into autorotative flight, you can auto from any altitude you can get the machine to. Might be a problem if you are hovering at altitude -- no forward motion to help you reverse the flow of air through the rotors.

You are in more trouble at low altitude and low speed. Every machine has a "dead man's curve" in the operating manual. Your objective is to spend as little time in that regime as possible. Some guys (like loggers and aerial-crane operators) don't have the luxury of choice here, and it shows up in their accident stats.

Autorotation also depends a lot on the inertia of the rotor system. Most military helicopters are really generous here. The popular Robinson training helicopters are not. Not that they are bad machines, but you have to take the low inertia of the Robbie rotor into account.

FOr anyone interested in accurate and in-depth information on rotorcraft flight, find the FAA's Rotorcraft Flying Handbook. You can but it on paper for about $20 or $30 -- or download it free as a .pdf file. It's an excellent book that explains why and how helicopters and gyroplanes fly -- and how to safely fly them. (Obviously no substitute for proper instruction, it's an adjunct to same).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[colorado tanker]

Thanks. It's a quote from Gen. Grant, but seems appropriate in these times.

[MontanaBeth]

Good luck hope your dream comes true!

MontanaBeth