On Aug 23, 8:03*am, Gauntlet
wrote:

*What
height did you enter the manoeuvre? *What height did you commence
recovery? *What height did you recover at?

I can't answer the book questions, only the streetwise questions.

Altimeter hands clearly show that I started the banked descent at
6000. I approached VNE very quickly and recovered at 4500 clearly
seen in the video. In the beginning of the video, I also alerted ATC
that I would work between 4000 and 6000 and told them that I would be
making rapid altitude changes so they could expect that. 325 is my
airport elevation so I had plenty of altitude. Gmeter in my plane
showed a maximum 2 G value on recovery, and there was no negative G
recorded I only banked, no pulling or pushing in the yoke and held the
bank angle until the nose started to drop. Video also shows my
recovery was not abrupt as I let the plane fly out on it's own. I had
a self imposed floor of 4000 and as you can see in the video, VNE came
up before the floor, so I let the plane level on it's own without any
power adjustment.

I did do two emergency descents without bank to get a feel of what was
needed for nose down attitude without pushing on the yoke excessively.

Beech Sundowner is my plane and commercial maneuvers are permitted. I
have a little over 950 hours in my plane I did check out all I could
before doing this maneuver.(see response to Robert Moore) and didn't
do this "blindly" as the intent of my own lesson was to learn how to
descend quickly should an imminent head on be in my future.

I do feel I did all I could research wise to ensure safety, and as you
can see, the outcome does speak for itself. I posted the video for
entertainment, educational value on how I fly, we all know it's not
designed for instructional value nor is this the intent of any of my
videos.

Truth be known, I felt just as safe doing this as doing a power on /
power off stall. Nose dropped just the same. Only difference I felt
was the speed was higher, G forces were non existent and I had to be
on top of my game for energy management..