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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The Navy/Marine Corps has had the same experience in its primary training aircraft, despite a lower maximum G load. The training GLOC rate is normally attributed to low experience levels.

Every pilot that flies high performance aircraft experiences "greying" in their vision under G from time to time. The hazard in front line fighters is that they can normally pull well in excess of 7.5 G's so quickly that the grey out warning never happens.

8 posted on 09/23/2016 8:24:40 AM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit
The training GLOC rate is normally attributed to low experience levels.

That's right. The thing with jets like the T-37 is that it doesn't pull high Gs, so guys don't take it seriously and do anything to prepare for it. Lack of experience, rapid onset of G, and doing nothing to mitigate it causes problems with trainees. The instructors take control after the student goes to sleep. After they wake up, he says to them, "If this was a single-seat jet, you'd be a pink puddle at the bottom of a smoking hole."

9 posted on 09/24/2016 11:20:53 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: USNBandit
The hazard in front line fighters is that they can normally pull well in excess of 7.5 G's so quickly that the grey out warning never happens.

That's what happened on this one, there's an article about it. He didn't experience the usual seeing stars at the edge of his vision or things going gray, he just suddenly went out. He woke up with his nose over the horizon and hearing the flight lead saying, "Knock it off..."

10 posted on 09/24/2016 11:25:18 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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