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g force question
just curious as to how many positive and how many negative g's you
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pilot in training wrote:
just curious as to how many positive and how many negative g's you feel in an average competition areobatics preformance. I just saw a show on the Wings channel ... In an Extra 300 The female pilot said she does 9+ and 6- at Oshkosh. |
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That;s probably PattyWagstaff. What she does is a bit out of the ordinary
for competition aerobatics. I would be surprised if someone pulls more than 4.5 Gs positive and -3 negative for advanced competition, much less for Basic/Primary. I've only flown basic and sportsman, and there I was pretty much only doing +3 Gs, and -1 negative (upside down.) Brian "Aardvarks" wrote in message . .. pilot in training wrote: just curious as to how many positive and how many negative g's you feel in an average competition areobatics preformance. I just saw a show on the Wings channel ... In an Extra 300 The female pilot said she does 9+ and 6- at Oshkosh. -- Brian D. Moffet -- http://www.moffetimages.com Photography, Computer/Security Consulting. |
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Get suprised. We do not compete and we still hit +6 G's. I prefer not to
get much negitive though, only around 2G's. We exceed 4.5 in simple steep turns. Wayne I would be surprised if someone pulls more than 4.5 Gs positive and -3 negative for advanced competition, much less for Basic/Primary. I've only flown basic and sportsman, and there I was pretty much only doing +3 Gs, and -1 negative (upside down.) Brian |
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Brian Moffet wrote:
That;s probably PattyWagstaff. What she does is a bit out of the ordinary for competition aerobatics. I would be surprised if someone pulls more than 4.5 Gs positive and -3 negative for advanced competition, much less for Basic/Primary. I've only flown basic and sportsman, and there I was pretty much only doing +3 Gs, and -1 negative (upside down.) Brian Brian Moffet wrote: That;s probably PattyWagstaff. What she does is a bit out of the ordinary for competition aerobatics. After a bit of research I found out who it was. "Northern Lights Aerobatics Team" "Michele Thonney, 31, of Lausanne, Switzerland, the only woman flying in a civilian aerobatic team." A quote from a Northern Lights Aerobatics Team member =========== Mario and his colleagues pull as much as 9.5 G's during the show. As far as negative G's, or the stomach-churning sensation of feeling yourself falling toward earth fast, tolerances are more limited. "In the show we go between minus 4 and minus 5,' Mario explains. "By minus 5 it hurts. I've never gone to minus ten and I don't intend to." =========== WW |
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Brian,
Brian Moffet wrote: I would be surprised if someone pulls more than 4.5 Gs positive and -3 negative for advanced competition, much less for Basic/Primary. I've only flown basic and sportsman, and there I was pretty much only doing +3 Gs, and -1 negative (upside down.) Brian Just doing the Sportsman sequence, my G meter shows +6 / -1 when I'm through. BJ |
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Another data point. I fly intermediate in a Pitts S-1T and I pull 6G's
on just about every pull. Negative G's are rather light in Intermediate because the worst we get is an inverted turn of about -3Gs or so. Higher G's are not so much of a problem because the duration is shorter. The real question is what is the "G * seconds" that you are experiencing. 2 G's for a minute will knock you out just as readily as 10g's for a second or so. Anyway, you just get used to it with time and practice ... its quite remarkable how a normal person can acclimatise to it. Peter Advanced pilots routinely get +6 to +8 and -4 to -6 (depending on how aggressive they fly. I usually have +7 and -5. When I flew Unlimited in my S-2A I actually had less since pulling to many g's bleeds off too much energy, and you need every bit of energy to get through an Unlimited sequence in an -A. Guenther ---------------------------------------------------- Guenther Eichhorn | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA CPL,ASMELS,Glider,LBH,IA,CFI | Pitts S-2A: N1GE DC-3 type rating | Flying is the Pitts See: http://acro.harvard.edu/ACRO In article , "Brian Moffet" writes: That;s probably PattyWagstaff. What she does is a bit out of the ordinary for competition aerobatics. I would be surprised if someone pulls more than 4.5 Gs positive and -3 negative for advanced competition, much less for Basic/Primary. I've only flown basic and sportsman, and there I was pretty much only doing +3 Gs, and -1 negative (upside down.) Brian "Aardvarks" wrote in message ... pilot in training wrote: just curious as to how many positive and how many negative g's you feel in an average competition areobatics preformance. I just saw a show on the Wings channel ... In an Extra 300 The female pilot said she does 9+ and 6- at Oshkosh. -- Brian D. Moffet -- http://www.moffetimages.com Photography, Computer/Security Consulting. |
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