What were you flying, and what were you pulling?
Most sustained G's I've pulled was 3.5 in the backseat of a Navy T-34C in a hard left turn when I was an NROTC squid on an aviation field trip back in Jan. 1993...recently (Oct. 2014) was hit with right about 3 G's in a Citabria 7KCAB as my instructor executed a hard pullup and zoom climb.
Got gees?
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Got gees?
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Prof H Paul Shuch
PhD CFII DPE LSRM-A/GL/WS/PPC iRMT
AvSport LLC, KLHV
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AvSport.org
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Re: Got gees?
Andy / PP-ASEL
Re: Got gees?
I was flying a 1946 Globe Swift (GC-1B); somewhere between 2 and 2.5, I think (that's about all my old bones will take).
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Prof H Paul Shuch
PhD CFII DPE LSRM-A/GL/WS/PPC iRMT
AvSport LLC, KLHV
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Prof H Paul Shuch
PhD CFII DPE LSRM-A/GL/WS/PPC iRMT
AvSport LLC, KLHV
[email protected]
AvSport.org
facebook.com/SportFlying
SportPilotExaminer.US
Re: Got gees?
I asked my tailwheel instructor in NC to take me up for an aerobatics flight last week...the very first straight loop, she hammered me with a 5G pullup. I suddenly found my head in my lap and my boom mic under my chin!
We did a few more loops, several aileron rolls, a barrel roll, an Immelmann, and a few hammerhead turns before I asked her to knock it off because my middle ear was getting uncomfortable. Heart and mind loved it, though...guess that just means I need to go fly aerobatics more often? Suffice it to say, my neck muscles were sore the rest of the day...
EDIT: here's Jenny and myself just before we launched in a 7GCAA Citabria out of Billy Mitchell Airport (KHSE)...
We did a few more loops, several aileron rolls, a barrel roll, an Immelmann, and a few hammerhead turns before I asked her to knock it off because my middle ear was getting uncomfortable. Heart and mind loved it, though...guess that just means I need to go fly aerobatics more often? Suffice it to say, my neck muscles were sore the rest of the day...
EDIT: here's Jenny and myself just before we launched in a 7GCAA Citabria out of Billy Mitchell Airport (KHSE)...
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