Blue Angel joy ride with reporter if you are bored.

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Pretty funny.

 

[ksu_aviator]

On the take off I couldn't tell they had lifted off, yet the pilot called gear up and then next thing you know he calls 280 kts

 

[blingair]

Why do they let smucks do these rides when a guy like me would give whats left of my right one for a short hop?

 

[Draginass]

That guy was pretty good. Checking out in high G isn't any shame for someone not formally trained or aclimated to it. Most other guys would be having a three-bagger.

 

[Lostdog65]

Now...I was laughing but not so much at him but at the fact that I'd probably go nite-nite too!

I do have one question to toss out there to anyone...

Since this guy isn't a pilot...do you think one of us regular joe pilots would have been able to handle those G's better???

Eric

 

[CX880]

Now...I was laughing but not so much at him but at the fact that I'd probably go nite-nite too!

I do have one question to toss out there to anyone...

Since this guy isn't a pilot...do you think one of us regular joe pilots would have been able to handle those G's better???

Eric

I don't think being a pilot has anything to do with it since you don't experience any excess Gs as a regular pilot. Those military pilots go through intensive training to be able to stay conscious through that. I'm guessing the G-suit protects up to 3 or 4gs right plus the body can withstand as much as 4gs. So they could probably take as much as 8gs no problem. Any higher they probably learn to suck it up and go though it. I'm surprised in the video the pilot didn't tell the poor guy how many Gs they went through at the turns, usually they do.

 

[osu_av8r]

I don't think being a pilot has anything to do with it since you don't experience any excess Gs as a regular pilot. Those military pilots go through intensive training to be able to stay conscious through that. I'm guessing the G-suit protects up to 3 or 4gs right plus the body can withstand as much as 4gs. So they could probably take as much as 8gs no problem. Any higher they probably learn to suck it up and go though it. I'm surprised in the video the pilot didn't tell the poor guy how many Gs they went through at the turns, usually they do.

I don't know about that. There was a time I added too much power during a caravan takeoff. I'll never unleash that again.

I hear the military pilots use a clenching technique to reduce the adverse affects of high Gs. I think I heard that this clenching technique envolves pretending that Rosie O'Donnel is standing on your chest and to react accordingly. Something like that. Keeps the blood upstairs. Me brain like oxygen.

 

[AdlerDriver]

I don't think being a pilot has anything to do with it since you don't experience any excess Gs as a regular pilot. Those military pilots go through intensive training to be able to stay conscious through that. I'm guessing the G-suit protects up to 3 or 4gs right plus the body can withstand as much as 4gs. So they could probably take as much as 8gs no problem. Any higher they probably learn to suck it up and go though it. I'm surprised in the video the pilot didn't tell the poor guy how many Gs they went through at the turns, usually they do.

G-suit gives you about 1.5-2 Gs of protection. Everyone's resting tolerance (just sitting with no strain) is different. An individual's resting tolerance can vary from day to day depending on nutrition, hydration, proper rest, etc. In the centrifuge, my resting tolerance was 6.5. That was just sitting, no g-suit and waiting until I lost about 50% of my peripheral vision.

 

[JimNtexas]

When I went into F-4 school as a new WSO I had about 200 hours as a private pilot and 10 hours in the back of a T-38 from lead-in training. I thought I was pretty well prepared for double-ugly. Ha!

It felt like an elephant was beating the heck out of me, at least what little of that first ride I can remember. I know I puked all over myself and was too stinky to go to the debrief.

My second ride went a little better. I got all my puke into a bag.
I remember heading back to base all proud that I had puked into my bag. Well, I had not yet fully grocked what "initial" actually, nor did I know that a sick-sack has a 2.5 g limit. Well in the break the pilot pulled the customary five gs, and "BANG", I'm covered with puke again.

 

[osu_av8r]

When I went into F-4 school as a new WSO I had about 200 hours as a private pilot and 10 hours in the back of a T-38 from lead-in training. I thought I was pretty well prepared for double-ugly. Ha!

It felt like an elephant was beating the heck out of me, at least what little of that first ride I can remember. I know I puked all over myself and was too stinky to go to the debrief.

My second ride went a little better. I got all my puke into a bag.
I remember heading back to base all proud that I had puked into my bag. Well, I had not yet fully grocked what "initial" actually, nor did I know that a sick-sack has a 2.5 g limit. Well in the break the pilot pulled the customary five gs, and "BANG", I'm covered with puke again.

Hmmmm, sounds like my fraternity initiation night