Buzzing

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
Ramapriya wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

Flying very low at relatively high speed. For a typical "buzz job", you would
dive at the object you wanted to buzz, level off a few feet above the highest
point there, fly over it, and climb rapidly. It's a dangerous maneuver due to
the risk of getting too low and hitting something and the risk that you might
get distracted during the climb out, let the speed bleed off too far, and stall.
Only two types of pilots do buzz jobs; 1) professionals who are practicing or
getting paid to do low level aerobatics, and 2) fools.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.


The genesis of this Q was the experience related by a member of the
crew of Steely Dan (my fav band, incidentally) about a charter plane
pilot buzzing with the band members inside. He recollects it being
thrilling and a wee unnerving too.

I did a Teoma search on the term before actually asking you guys, so I
wasn't trolling at all, like Schmoe suspected

George Patterson's answer comes very close to the description of the
actual experience itself, which sounded like it was a maneuver
involving a sudden nosedive with no prior thrust decrease and leveling
off mightily close to the ground and pulling back up again.

But this is quite different from what others have written, which is
more like what some overenthusiastic young Indian Air Force pilots
have been known to do close to female hostels in cities across India -
fly real low and shatter the peace :\

Ramapriya

"G.R. Patterson III" grpphoto@ wrote

Flying very low at relatively high speed.

So Super Cubs and the likes are exempt from 'buzzing' due to lack of high
speed.

For a typical "buzz job", you would dive at the object you wanted to buzz,
level off a few feet above the highest point there, fly over it, and climb
rapidly.

So if I'm just flying along level, with out diving, and fly over your head
by just a few feet, and continue on without climbing, that is not buzzing?

I would have thought it was. Just food for thought.

PJ

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:50:05 -0900, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

"G.R. Patterson III" grpphoto@ wrote

Flying very low at relatively high speed.

So Super Cubs and the likes are exempt from 'buzzing' due to lack of high
speed.
The key word is "relatively". :-))

I guess that depends on how you look at it. You just have to get
lower, but watch out for the clothesline when flying between the
garage and house.


For a typical "buzz job", you would dive at the object you wanted to buzz,
level off a few feet above the highest point there, fly over it, and climb
rapidly.

There is a reason they call the old "butch haircut" a buzz job.


So if I'm just flying along level, with out diving, and fly over your head
by just a few feet, and continue on without climbing, that is not buzzing?

I would have thought it was. Just food for thought.

A couple Summers back, my wife and I were working out in the front
yard when we heard someone talking to us. No one in the yard. Looked
up and there was a Cub about 5 to 10 feet over the trees with the
power off. As he glided out of site behind the house we heard the
power come back up.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

PJ

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
Ramapriya wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

Flying very low at relatively high speed. For a typical "buzz job", you would
dive at the object you wanted to buzz, level off a few feet above the highest
point there, fly over it, and climb rapidly. It's a dangerous maneuver due to
the risk of getting too low and hitting something and the risk that you might
get distracted during the climb out, let the speed bleed off too far, and stall.

Many of the idiots who kill themselves buzzing pull back real
hard and get an accelerated stall and snap-roll into the ground. Seems
to be some shortcoming in their training and/or understanding of angle
of attack.

Only two types of pilots do buzz jobs; 1) professionals who are practicing or
getting paid to do low level aerobatics, and 2) fools.

Yup.

Dan

It's the manuever that male pilots apply to their female companions by
buzzing to provide good feelings...

"Ramapriya" wrote in message
om...
What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

Ramapriya

At the hearing to revoke the pilot's certificates, it would be referred to
as "unwarranted low flying."

Bob Gardner

"Ramapriya" wrote in message
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What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

Ramapriya

Ramapriya wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

See:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...awsuit-ON.html

- Andrew