"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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Y'all ought to consider changing the subject line of this thread. :-)
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Jim in NC

Things have sure changed since I was flying. Hell, I used to have towers
ASK
me for overhead approaches just so they could see the damn airplane :-)

All this dialog about overheads not being efficient is really non
sequitur.
(that's a flight instructor word folks :-)
They are indeed efficient in high performance airplanes and in fact the
preferred approach in hot props P51-F8F- etc where engine cool down and
plug
fouling can be low power issues on extended approaches.
What's making me laugh at all this is that I think everybody is on
separate
pages discussing the "issue" :-) The poster taking the negative side seems
to think that overheads are the everyday result of some hothead hot rock
driving in through the trees and doing a Chandelle off the deck right into
somebody else's downwind. It's not that this couldn't happen, and I'm
sure,
knowing some of the idiots who own high performance airplanes, that it HAS
happened, but flying like this would be considered strictly taboo by any
pilot with an once of brains.
So either everybody flying a warbird hasn't an once of brains, or what the
poster on the negative side is saying is that these approaches are
routinely
flown by warbird pilots without consideration for regulations and local
traffic. I can assure everybody, that anyone flying an unannounced and
APPROVED overhead approach would be the exception, certainly not the rule;
not for any warbird pilots I know anyway :-)
There are idiots flying all kinds of airplanes, and every once in a while,
as sure as putting a Chimp on a computer keyboard will result in his
typing
War and Peace, one of these folks will drive on in unannounced at 46" and
2700 RPM in the old P51 and take the heads off the daisies, but believe me
gang, this type of incident is NOT what we teach people to do with
warbirds
:-))
Dudley


I read back a little, and the earliest that I saw related to some RV
drivers.

Peter