jnmeade
Cleared for Takeoff
Curious to know if any of you have done the loop, the roll, the hammerhead, etc. in your ASES? Anything you found to be different? Yes, I know how it feels to get the floats going one way when I am going another.
The question would be, why would you want to? It's gonna stink at acro; clearly isn't designed or tested for it; and it wouldn't take a long stroll through the NTSB archives to come across all manner of inflight breakups and other accidents resulting from pilots who thought they could be Sean Tucker in a non-aerobatic craft. But if you try it, you should definitely video it so that future attempts might be discouraged by watching the accident on youtube.
Something to be said about a learners acro a/c that does not build up speed to quickly on the downline. . .
It's gonna stink at acro
Perhaps they had a failed bilge pump and needed to shake all the water out of the floats.But one day I was at a friends house in Edmonds. One of Kenmore Air Harbor's 172s was doing all sorts of aerobatics above us. Loops and rolls in any case. I couldn't believe my eyes.
Perhaps they had a failed bilge pump and needed to shake all the water out of the floats.
That's a knee slapper.No, no... Those are common maneuvers for herding Salmon...