30West
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- Feb 16, 2006
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It's only stupid if you don't know what you're doing
Never flew freight piston, only 121. Never penetrated a thunderstorm. Been handed my ass plenty threading between and around them though. Last time I checked there isn't a "safe" way to penetrate thunderstorms regularly. What am I missing?
I've not heard of an airplane where intentional wx penetration is recommended or approved.
Nobody needs thier urine samples or cancelled checks bad enough to risk my life for.
I haven't worked for FLX so perhaps they don't expect you to launch into a line of wx for the sake of a buck. I know guys that have flown at other outfits that have been told "go or we'll find someone who will". I do know that in the airline world I've had dispatch try to trick me into doing it. The answer was always the same- Not right now.
Getting back to the original video, assuming this guy knows how to do a proper barrel roll in a normal category aircraft, I can guarantee there are 2 or 3 guys before him that didn't know what they were doing and dished out at the top of the roll and pulled a bunch of G's in the process of screwing up the recovery.
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