Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in news:zO-
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Aviv Hod wrote:
Fellow pilots, let's be nicer to our passengers than this pilot
apparently is. If anyone in the plane has a bag at the ready, it's
not a good time to pull zero G maneuvers!!

http://www.break.com/index/barf-bags...k-at-0-gs.html

This is pretty funny though :-)

-Aviv
In my opinion this pilot would not end up on my list of people I
would recommend.
This "stunt" is unwise as a general rule, especially in aircraft
like this one; especially loaded with passengers; especially with
baggage in the baggage compartment; especially with that baggage not
tied down and secured; and most importantly, especially at the high
rate of forward pressure this pilot was obviously using to "create
the effect". It's very possible to take these airplanes right on
through 0 g and into negative g if this is done fast enough and
these airplanes are not designed for that. Carried to the extreme,
this "stunt" could cause real structural problems.
And all this doesn't even address the fact that at least one
passenger on this flight was taken from the role of passenger and
made a victim by this totally inappropriate, unprofessional, and
unnecessary act of stupidity by this pilot.
Demonstrating things like this in a loaded airplane is not the way
to impress the ladies.
I hope I've made my point on this perfectly clear.

Waht was that first part again?


Bertie
Bad JuJu :-)


Yep. What an asshole!
When I used to give aerobatic rides in the Stearmans, we had our share
of casualties. We always briefed a signal if the passenger was getting
uncomfortable. Sometimes it caught up on them, though and if you saw a
head going over the cockpit side your foot went down on the same side
quick-ish so you didn't get a faceful yourself. A couple of people just
put their head 'twxth their knees, but fortunately, the Stearman had a
removable pan beneath the cockpits you could release with a few dzus and
a quick hosing our was all that was needed.
Now there's a well thought out airplane.



Bertie




I've tried that rudder trick myself in a Great Lakes....with mixed
results :-))
The Stearman is a great airplane. We had a 450 on the field I flew once
in a while with the owner. Don't know if you ever had the chance to fly
the 450. It was a whole new airplane. I remember laughing to myself on
my first takeoff. I didn't have the power in before I broke ground. The
nose visuals were about the same as the Mustang.....non-existent :-))



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Dudley Henriques