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Title: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: dentin on July 04, 2008, 10:34:12 AM
Think your a good pilet??  This little clip will put your ego back into the box.  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkKZnXAiTQQ&feature=related

Or this one for better quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcKUm9FdKY8&feature=related
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: Masherbrum on July 04, 2008, 10:56:38 AM
We play a game.    What "reality check" am I not getting here?   

 :confused:
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: Max on July 04, 2008, 11:05:00 AM
I wouldn't mind pulling a few G's with Svetlana  :rofl
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: dentin on July 04, 2008, 01:53:49 PM
We play a game.    What "reality check" am I not getting here?   

 :confused:

Your not THAT naive...are ya?  :huh  There appears to be SOME people on this BBS that have actually flown a real a/c  to wit:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,230045.0.html
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: crockett on July 04, 2008, 02:01:23 PM
I wouldn't mind pulling a few G's with Svetlana  :rofl

I'd be more than willing to give her a check 6..
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: morfiend on July 04, 2008, 02:17:45 PM
  I want svetelana as my co-pilot,being and old stick and rubher kinda guy.... :devil
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: iWalrus on July 04, 2008, 02:23:17 PM
Your not THAT naive...are ya?  :huh  There appears to be SOME people on this BBS that have actually flown a real a/c  to wit:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,230045.0.html

There are also plenty of doctors that are licensed pilots. Let's go to a medical forum and give them the same reality check.
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: dentin on July 04, 2008, 02:30:13 PM
There are also plenty of doctors that are licensed pilots. Let's go to a medical forum and give them the same reality check.

Lead the way.. :D

P.S. Statistically, medical professionals have one of the worst accident records in aviation.  :eek:
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: uptown on July 04, 2008, 02:37:56 PM
wow! stick stirrin' is a sport now!  :huh
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: BMathis on July 04, 2008, 02:46:24 PM
Sweet find.  :aok 
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: yanksfan on July 04, 2008, 03:08:41 PM
Very cool vid Dent! great find.

oh and if your offended by the reality ck comment, you may need a reality ck, lol, :D
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: dentin on July 04, 2008, 03:26:06 PM
Very cool vid Dent! great find.

oh and if your offended by the reality ck comment, you may need a reality ck, lol, :D

Uh-huh...ain't she sweet??...I think I'm in love.  :rofl
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: SD67 on July 04, 2008, 10:13:31 PM
Lead the way.. :D

P.S. Statistically, medical professionals have one of the worst accident records in aviation.  :eek:
Quote from: ISASI FORUM magazine
A doctor surgeon from Whyalla found his battery dead in his Piper Saratoga (a powerful single-engine aircraft) at Parafield Airport, South Australia, on the night of Aug. 26, 2001. He then proceeded to hand start the engine by turning the prop. While this is actually not illegal, it should be approached with the utmost of caution and is really only used in remote areas where there is no help or decent pub within a long walk. (SD: there is actually a pub less than 500M from where this occured!)
The pilot, by himself, did not chock the wheels or check that the handbrake was engaged ….
Anyway, the engine fires up at about 2,000 rpm and the aircraft starts taxiing to the runway on its own. The only problem with that was there were four Piper Warriors and a twin-engine Seminole (the sliced plane in picture) in its way. The pilot somehow managed to avoid certain death, although this may have been the better option considering what was about to unfold.
At a steady rate of forward movement similar to a fairly upset hippo during breeding season, the Saratoga proceeds to destroy anything in its path. With approx. 350 liters of avgas spewing out of the damaged aircraft, the pilot must surely realize that an appropriate timely death is about to occur….The result is he lived, and the University of Adelaide lost one plane and the use of the other four for some time to come, all because of a flat battery and a really bad decision. The cost—$1.5 million and absolute embarrassment for the rest of the pilot’s life.
You can just imagine the pilot, after being run over by his own plane, hanging on to the tail of his aircraft trying to stop it going any further and watching in horror as it bit by bit shreds the tail of the most expensive aircraft in the vicinity and thinking any minute the engine will stop. Just when he thinks the nightmare is going to come to an end, his aircraft then makes a sharp right-hand turn and without conscience heads to the second-most expensive aircraft in its
way.
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: Masherbrum on July 04, 2008, 10:28:17 PM
Your not THAT naive...are ya?  :huh  There appears to be SOME people on this BBS that have actually flown a real a/c  to wit:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,230045.0.html

I'm far from naive.  Had I known that the thread mentioned was "it's intended response", it would have been different, I suppose.   I watched the film and was impressed with her abilities in the Sukhoi.     

Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: LilMak on July 04, 2008, 11:46:41 PM
I'll see you Svetlana and raise you a Patty Wagstaff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx_ui2qWgqI

 :rock
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: dentin on July 05, 2008, 09:51:29 AM
I'm far from naive.  Had I known that the thread mentioned was "it's intended response", it would have been different, I suppose.   I watched the film and was impressed with her abilities in the Sukhoi.     



Didn't mean to insult...sorry.  :salute
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: dentin on July 05, 2008, 10:02:25 AM
I'll see you Svetlana and raise you a Patty Wagstaff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx_ui2qWgqI

 :rock

fold.  :D  They're very talented ...
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: Tr1gg22 on July 05, 2008, 01:24:05 PM
thanks for the video :salute
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: bcadoo on July 05, 2008, 02:41:16 PM
I'll see you Svetlana and raise you a Patty Wagstaff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx_ui2qWgqI

 :rock

Yeah, Patty does some pretty incredible stuff.  I saw her do a 360 degree level turn............while doing aileron rolls.  (Try doing that in the RV in the practice arena and you'll realize how difficult that is)
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: mechanic on July 05, 2008, 03:10:40 PM
give me a week to get used to the Gs and i would be doing that all day :D
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: dentin on July 05, 2008, 04:14:06 PM
Yeah, Patty does some pretty incredible stuff.  I saw her do a 360 degree level turn............while doing aileron rolls.  (Try doing that in the RV in the practice arena and you'll realize how difficult that is)

I could Probably do that in a RV and scoop a few pounds of worms at the same time.     :rofl
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: AGM65 on July 05, 2008, 10:47:05 PM
 I'll see you and raise you one. United States Air Force Thunderbirds, Major Samantha Weeks, lead solo. :rock
Title: Re: Reality Check for the "boys"
Post by: bcadoo on July 06, 2008, 12:27:43 AM
I'll see you and raise you one. United States Air Force Thunderbirds, Major Samantha Weeks, lead solo. :rock

Really not an 'apples to apples' comarison.

Here is who she replaced:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD3fdKmMdQM

This (the style of flying...not the crash) is typical of the type of maneuvers the solo's fly for both the tbirds and the blues.  They will pull sustained g's longer because the aircraft is capable of doing it, but Patty's maneuvers are much more violent and pretty sure the solo's aren't going 8 negative.

Would be interesting to see each fly the other's plane.