A Squared
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Agree with Turbo s-7 about course reversals.
The aerobatic heroics *sound* good, and they're fun to practice, but that's about it. The people I know who actually make their living flying in mountainous terrain just laugh.
Like Turbo said, you're usually limited by a low ceiling, or you are where I fly. (turbo's flown here too) If you really do have clear skies above you, what are you doing down low?
The other thing is, regardless of whether you are restricted above, all the Wingover/chandelle/ immelmann turn heroics depend on having a bunch of airspeed for the maunuever.
Here's the reality, Joe future statistic isn't going to be tooling along at cruise speed when he realizes that he's not going to outclimb the terrain. That realization is going to come when he's at about 7 knots below Vx, already at full power and only 50 feet above the rapidly rising slope. Yanking back and banking hard is only going to make the impact happen a little sooner.
If you've actually flown a heavily loaded airplane in confined areas, (and I've done it a fair amount) you'll know that aerobatics are just a silly fantasy. It's far better to practice minimum airspeed, minimum radius turns with zero altitude loss or gain. A small but inportant modification to that is that if you have altitude to lose, you can tighten a turn radius by letting your airplane descend, yet another reason to keep a pad of altitude below you.
regards
The aerobatic heroics *sound* good, and they're fun to practice, but that's about it. The people I know who actually make their living flying in mountainous terrain just laugh.
Like Turbo said, you're usually limited by a low ceiling, or you are where I fly. (turbo's flown here too) If you really do have clear skies above you, what are you doing down low?
The other thing is, regardless of whether you are restricted above, all the Wingover/chandelle/ immelmann turn heroics depend on having a bunch of airspeed for the maunuever.
Here's the reality, Joe future statistic isn't going to be tooling along at cruise speed when he realizes that he's not going to outclimb the terrain. That realization is going to come when he's at about 7 knots below Vx, already at full power and only 50 feet above the rapidly rising slope. Yanking back and banking hard is only going to make the impact happen a little sooner.
If you've actually flown a heavily loaded airplane in confined areas, (and I've done it a fair amount) you'll know that aerobatics are just a silly fantasy. It's far better to practice minimum airspeed, minimum radius turns with zero altitude loss or gain. A small but inportant modification to that is that if you have altitude to lose, you can tighten a turn radius by letting your airplane descend, yet another reason to keep a pad of altitude below you.
regards
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