ATR Barrel Roll

[hawkerjet]

Danish ATR pilots rolling an ATR

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/05/16/223759/atr-may-have-been-damaged-in-barrel-roll.html

 

[Max Q]

That "sequence of images of the incident" looks more like MS Flight Sim.

-Brett

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Don't any of you Bada-Bing Boys get any crazy ideas now.

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Nice...

"We suspect, although only on the basis of initial information, that the aircraft had been flown outside its operational envelope."

...Ya think?

 

[Abernathy]

Don't any of you Bada-Bing Boys get any crazy ideas now.

It rolled like only an ATR can.

 

[TOOL CRIB]

Don't any of you Bada-Bing Boys get any crazy ideas now.

Are you kidding? That's the only kind of idea they DO get!

 

[OCP]

Tex did this way back in a 707. Like he said, as long as you keep 1G on the airplane it doesn't know the difference.

 

[CFI2766]

Those pics came from MSN flight sim...

Of course the airplane can do a barrell roll, but should it? In the hands of the right pilot, any airplane can accomplish a barrell roll with no structural damage. I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that 99.99% of all airline pilots are not that right pilot. I know I'm not.

I've known guys that I respected that killed themselves doing this exact same thing in a Saratoga.

Dumb, dumb, DUMB.

 

[SLUF4]

I saw this last week, but they've taken down the original photos so now they only have the smaller ones..there's a video on youtube of the originals
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UW4cUGyRLbk
doesn't look like flightsim to me, but people can do lots with photoshop these days. It is a stupid thing to do in an airliner, though. Yes, I know about Tex and the 707.

 

[ackattacker]

Remember this one? 1993 GP Express.

Legend: PIC - pilot in command; CP - copilot
Time & Intra-cockpit
Source Communication
1148:42
PIC You never rolled any airplane?

1149:43
CP Zero point zero

1149:45
PIC Well #, never rolled a ninety nine (Beechcraft C-99)

1149:51
CP Done a four oh two (Cessna 402, another twin-engine model)

1149:52
PIC None. One fifty twos, one seventy twos (other Cessnas). That's
when I knew it was time to get out of instructing. Those slugs, they
don't roll very well at all. We were doing aileron rolls where you
just sit like this and crank, and they come around kinda hard the
barrel roll's a lot easier on, uh, they don't have enough poop to
barrel roll, one seventy two's not too bad, just where, you's kinda
nose down. I guess we've got enough speed right now, and you just
kinda start coming in like this (manipulates controls) pullin' up -

1150:28
PIC And keep positive Gs on it. Take it all the way around, unload -

1150:35
PIC And then point it straight for the ground.
END OF RECORDING

 

[CX880]

Tex did this way back in a 707. Like he said, as long as you keep 1G on the airplane it doesn't know the difference.

You can roll a 172 or even a Seminole but rolling a transport airplane is stupid. By the way not sure if those pics depict a 1g maneuver.

 

[T-prop]

You can roll a 172 or even a Seminole but rolling a transport airplane is stupid. By the way not sure if those pics depict a 1g maneuver.

NO, try again. Rolling ANYTHING that is not certified for at least limited aerobatics by any pilot that is not qualified as an aerobatic pilot, IS RETARDED.

Little stuff leads to big stuff.

By all accounts they were outstanding pilots...

http://www.flightsafety.org/ap/ap_june94.pdf

Hoover and the commander, Sabreliner; Tex and the 707 were a "little" different. Test pilots with many hours spent hunting for the fine feathered edge of aircraft performance on dozens of variations, of hundreds of aircraft.

They knew their limits, as well as they knew the aircraft they test flew.

Refer to the quote below,

 

[hawkerjet]

I don't think that was a msn sim photo, because of the many articles in the newspapers. Both pilots of the ATR were also going to be in an airshow coming up, but I don't think the ATR was going to be part it.

 

[Cardinal]

Rolling an airliner may be idiotic, but it's cute idiotic, and lots of folks have done it.

Doing it in broad daylight at low level over an airport and a city, that sets new standards of idiocy.

 

[DrewBlows]

For anyone considering rolling an airplane not certified to do so...please don't roll an airplane that I may fly. I don't want to die because you want to go upside down.