There are. Ok maybe not hundreds. I personally know several guys who have done it and are doing it. Guy I used to fly with would hitch rides on lears at his previous job (cargo). He said he would encourage them to do it and they would....multiple times! My dad's best friend was a lear demo pilot back in the 70's and they did it all the time. As part of the demo in some cases! A personal friend of mine, who read this thread, rolls corporate jets all the time and "doesn't see what the big deal is as long as you know what your doing". He considers himself to be a superior aviator because he does it. I say support your local flying club and find a Citabria or a Great lakes and get it out of your system.
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There are. Ok maybe not hundreds. I personally know several guys who have done it and are doing it. Guy I used to fly with would hitch rides on lears at his previous job (cargo). He said he would encourage them to do it and they would....multiple times! My dad's best friend was a lear demo pilot back in the 70's and they did it all the time. As part of the demo in some cases! A personal friend of mine, who read this thread, rolls corporate jets all the time and "doesn't see what the big deal is as long as you know what your doing". He considers himself to be a superior aviator because he does it. I say support your local flying club and find a Citabria or a Great lakes and get it out of your system.
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BEfly, I am not saying that it does not happen. In fact at certain departments it may happen to the same plane over and over again all of the time, but I believe that reflects on the professionalism at each of those departments. I am saying where I work I know for a fact it does not happen, and I know plenty of other departments where it does not happen.
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I remember watching a documentary on the Concorde years ago. A retired British Airways Captain was talking about his first training flight in the aircraft (no pax) when he was an FO. He said that the Training Captain rolled the Concorde, then gave him the controls (er, handling) and said something like, "Right...I've rolled it around, now you roll it back!" which the FO did. Given the small size of the Concorde fleet, it's possible that every one was rolled, at least at BA.
Anyone hear about other airliners intentionally rolled, other than Tex Johnston in the 707?
Anyone hear about other airliners intentionally rolled, other than Tex Johnston in the 707?
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Ha, that would be awesome to see a concord rolling. But no I have not heard of any airliners being rolled.
... and these are the kind of tools that don't belong flying.
There's a video of that somewhere. I think it was in Michigan. Someone rolled a DC-8 too maybe it was him.
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I was just thinking the same thing...at least he didn't have to pay his pilot much!
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Hundreds? Every day? C'mon Fly91, that's quite a stretch. I think bizjets are rolled more than some of us want to believe. It probably never happens at places like NJA, but it does happen at less regulated companies and private small airplane operations.
How many of us have NEVER done dumb shiite in an airplane? I know I've done my share, but the more experience we get we're less likely to say "Hey, watch this." I cringe when I look back at my formative years of flying and remember some of the boneheaded things I did. Good or bad, it's part of the process whether you come up flying military, instructing, corporate or freight. As our flying progresses we get a little wiser and we start making better decisions. Nobody is out there on ferry flights rolling airliners and G550s, but the young guns and stupid old guys at small companies are still doing doing dumb shiite when they think no one is looking. Hell, truth be told it would probably happen more often in bigger planes if it wasn't for FDRs and cockpit tapes.
Just because you don't hear a lot about guys flying less than 8 hours bottle to throttle, or bizjet aileron rolls, or smoking dope doesn't mean it doesn't happen. All that stuff is illegal. People that do illegal things generally keep it to themselves.
I agree with Fly91. It probably happens more than you think (but not hundreds of times every day).
One more thing. An aileron roll in a Lear on the glide slope with no more than a dot of deflection? BS. First of all I don't buy anybody is stupid enough to try to roll an airplane while on an ILS. The one dot deflection is just frosting on a BS story. If you're gonna tell a tall tale you might as well go big and you certainly did that, but you went too far. I'm not buying it for one second unless the guys last name was Hoover.
How many of us have NEVER done dumb shiite in an airplane? I know I've done my share, but the more experience we get we're less likely to say "Hey, watch this." I cringe when I look back at my formative years of flying and remember some of the boneheaded things I did. Good or bad, it's part of the process whether you come up flying military, instructing, corporate or freight. As our flying progresses we get a little wiser and we start making better decisions. Nobody is out there on ferry flights rolling airliners and G550s, but the young guns and stupid old guys at small companies are still doing doing dumb shiite when they think no one is looking. Hell, truth be told it would probably happen more often in bigger planes if it wasn't for FDRs and cockpit tapes.
Just because you don't hear a lot about guys flying less than 8 hours bottle to throttle, or bizjet aileron rolls, or smoking dope doesn't mean it doesn't happen. All that stuff is illegal. People that do illegal things generally keep it to themselves.
I agree with Fly91. It probably happens more than you think (but not hundreds of times every day).
One more thing. An aileron roll in a Lear on the glide slope with no more than a dot of deflection? BS. First of all I don't buy anybody is stupid enough to try to roll an airplane while on an ILS. The one dot deflection is just frosting on a BS story. If you're gonna tell a tall tale you might as well go big and you certainly did that, but you went too far. I'm not buying it for one second unless the guys last name was Hoover.
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