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Old November 1st 07, 09:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Morgans[_2_]
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Default Putting the "P" in piloting


"Dudley Henriques" wrote

If you're the instructor and the guy who has to go is the student, it's
always fun to pull in a little positive pitch input every once in a while;
just enough to put about .5 positive g on the airplane. It compresses the
guy's butt into the seat just a bit and "enhances the experience" for the
instructor.
And to think that before this "crappy discussion" got started I had almost
forgotten how much fun it was teaching in these airplanes. :-))


Yep. I'm sure that many things not mention here have taken place in times
of need.

About the pulling the extra .5 G, that would be fun - for the instructor.
;-) I would imagine some quick oscillations between -.5 and quickly back to
1.5 a few times would increase the pain and pleasure in an even better way.
Of course, there is the old test pilot bit about checking a new bird for
flutter by "rapping the stick" with the butt of your hand. A quick
succession of those would be good to try, too.

I'm really quite evil, (in a calm kind of way) when I put my mind to it! g

I had recently talked about driving school bus, some. I had a couple
students in class that I enjoyed, and we liked to have fun kidding each
other, and they also rode the bus home every day. They were the last off,
or close to it, and had probably been riding for close to an hour and a half
before they got off. One of them made the mistake of telling me that they
had started the ride with a big bottle of Coke, and needed to relieve
themselves very soon, and would be glad to get off the bus.

I said, "Oh, it was a BIG mistake to tell me that!" I then proceeded to hit
every pothole (there were plenty of them on this backroad route) and rattled
the bus impressively. They were truly begging for mercy, in short order.
After a couple more good bumps, I relented. g
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Jim in NC