Holy crap. What a manuever

[B@tfinkV]

Originally posted by Golfer
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Like someone said...they're just good beyond the AH player comprehension.

thats not true, i fully comprehend how good this flying is.


we can do the same in AH, have flown through a hanger, rolled inverted in the space between two hangers (maybe 15ft max) and flown through the next hanger inverted. In real life it would be just as possible, obviously big difference is when i screw up its not my life at risk.


this guy is a nutcase, a highly skilled pilot, and no doubt in possesion of large amounts of fully functioning brain cells.

it amazes me that people can say dying watching a super air show is sad, but going to war and being shot is heroic.

[Falcon]

Originally posted by Mustaine
did you guys see this:

http://mirror.vector.ch/%7Ehvoltige/videos/peter_goes_low.mpg

and this:

http://mirror.vector.ch/%7Ehvoltige/videos/zhang-jia-jie2.mpg

: Betcha that guy on the second vid plays alot of crimson skies...

Falcon

[Enduro]

some of the guys in this thread need to shut down their computers, turn their TVs to the Disney channel and then break their remotes for good.    hehe

[68Hall]

Based on some of the comments here, some of you guys really need to take a look at the link provided to this guys site, and perhaps read his bio/resume. This guy is a multiple world champion aerobatics pilot, who designed the plane he is flying, and there are pics of the obviously planned preparation for this stunt flight.
I'm not sure who would be considered crazier, this guy, or the 737 pilot flying through wind sheer at night, in winter, praying to God that the maintenance team did a perfect job on the de-icing equipment, and betting his and his passengers lives on the air traffic controller having his console absolutely nailed?
Does anyone seriously think that a multi time world champ hasn't done all of his homework, test flights etc to KNOW he was going to be right on the money? Seriously, do any of you REALLY think this guy left a damn thing to chance?

[Wolfala]

That guy has an aluminum shower in his future. I don't care how good he is - fly long enough, you push yr luck.

And those of us on this board who are actually drivers know this.


Wolf

[humble]

Bus Drivers?

Again a statement that couldnt be farther from the truth. Statistically the single greatest issue in pilot fatalities is pilot error. The second is mechanical failure (or commonly a combination of failure and incorrect pilot response). "Luck" is so far down the list its a statistical anomaly. For a pilot of this type the entire flight is well within his skill envelope. The only thing the guy was pushing was his plane. Even good pilots make errors...I knew a good oilfield bush pilot who died when the 172 he was flying developed carb ice (was right in the meteorlogical preflight) and he deadsticked it onto the only patch of rocks in 5 miles (local vis was about zero apparently)....a second lost his instruments (primary and backup) at night in a thunderstorm....

None of the guys I know who have died flying died from anything other than "wrong place, wrong time" usually tied to flying into a known problem they felt they had a high probability of managing based on years and thousands of hours of experience. Anyone who flies knows that its 99.5% boredom and .5% sphincter puckering....I know no 1000 hr pilots without at least 1 good story to tell........

[KD303]

Originally posted by 68Hall
Based on some of the comments here, some of you guys really need to take a look at the link provided to this guys site, and perhaps read his bio/resume. This guy is a multiple world champion aerobatics pilot... Seriously, do any of you REALLY think this guy left a damn thing to chance?

My sentiments exactly. The same negative "how damn irresponsible, blah blah blah" I've been reading here could be said about F1 drivers doing 210MPH under bridges...It's perceived risk. Risk, indeed, but not quite as much risk as you might be led to believe. That's the attraction of such spectacle. The professional men and women who do things which seem so very very dangerous don't have any intention of dying, and very few do die. It's similar with rock climbing. You watch some top climber climb a cliff without a rope and you think, "Jeez what a nutter, he'll fall off and die!" He almost certainly won't fall off and die because he's doing something well within his limits. Of course if you watch your drunk friend climb a building on the way home from the pub, yeah he's probably headed for brains on pavement time. We see an expert do something and we judge it against the abilities of a skill-free arse. That's partly what makes such things so exciting and impressive to watch.
I think that, for all it's appearance of death defying madness, Jurgis Kairis' inverted flight under the bridge was well within his limits.
Before judging him, you really need to find out more about the man and his aerobatic abilities. If he was an average pilot, then yes, it was crazy and irresponsible. He isn't - it wasn't.

KD

[KD303]

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