Once a year I am a member of the Safety Committee at a small (but very good)
air display about 3 miles from my home, Little Gransden (the owner is an
aerobatics champion, Mark Jefferies). My job on that committee is to monitor
each display for safety, in all its aspects. The worst ones to watch are the
small “consumer” mopeds-of-the-sky whose pilots want to make up a display. The
Cessna 150s of this world, and their pilots (mostly) are not suited to anything
past 30 degrees of bank or 10 degrees of pitch.
Chris
On 16 Jul 2014, at 19:54, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Poor chap! But in a Cherokee??
>
> Yeah, seriously? That has got to be one of the worst planes for
> inverted/negative-g flight ever. First of all, if the guy didn't keep
> positive g, the carb will run dry. Secondly, if he didn't have enough
> speed and use a proper amount of rudder, that wing will stall out and
> he'll spiral right in. Thirdly, he'll scrub off enough speed through
> the manouver that he'd have to start out above Vno. Frankly, I'm not
> even sure how it could be done in a Cherokee without losing 300 foot
> of altitude.
>
> OK, maybe not the worst plane, but needless to say, I'm no Piper Cherokee fan.
>
> We had this old pilot at our airport who had a beater Cherokee. The
> guy would do all sorts of stupid stuff with it, including flying
> inverted. Old+Bold. However, over 50 years, he crashed a dozen
> aircraft and somehow lived through every one of them.
>
> Would somebody explain to me the logic behind having the sole cabin
> door on the passenger side? This is one legacy feature of Beechcraft
> and Piper that I have never been able to figure out.
>
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