Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
kontiki wrote in newsXc4j.21470$ya1.4678
@news02.roc.ny:

Dale wrote:

What do parachutes have to do with it? Easy to do that without
exceeding 30 degrees of pitch.
I thought they were required for any aerobatics... (it looked like
a loop to me, quality wasn't that good)... The point though, is...
would you take your family out and do aerobatics with them and not
have them wear parachutes? I wouldn't. I had to wear one just when
I was a jump pilot and we never exceeded 30 in pitch. Maybe I'm
just too conservative.

I still think the pilot is an idiot.

He was, but what he did was a bump. Pitch up, push over hard. He pushed
hard enough to flood the carb at one point. Parachutes would have been next
to useless anyway. Not much chance of getting out of a 172 at the sort of
speeds it would have been going and the people on board would more than
likely not have been clued up enough to get out anyway.
Lots of people do this and it's not all that dangerous, though with a full
pax complement the aircraft's Loading margins are reduced significantly
(that's one reason why utility category has a higher G allowance),but why
not just get an aerobatic airplane and do it right anyway?
Aside from anything else it's more fun.


Bertie

Best post in the thread :-))

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Dudley Henriques