(Peter Stickney) wrote:

"Octoflugerons"?! Okay, I'll bite: WTF is an octoflugeron when it's at
home?

The name my instructors drilled into me for an impressive, although
unintended maneuver, such as, say, spinning over the top while trying
to core a thermal (Not being too coordated, and stalling the upside
wing (Left turn, right wing, for example. It's Natures Way of telling
you to pay more attention.

Ain't that the truth? The first time I ever went practicing
accelerated stalls by myself, the Citabria evidently found me wanting
at the rudder. It promptly slapped me in the head with about 120
degrees of roll, about 70 degrees of pitch, and maybe 150 degrees of
yaw, all before I could catch a breath. It was exactly the way you
said: over the top to the right side. I'll never forget that.

I was quite fully attentive, very rapidly.


Billy

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