My Second Flight - Exciting Flight!!!!

[Layne.]

Had my second flight today...

Flew in VH-THF a great Cessna 152

[flavio]

A barrel roll? Man that sounds sweet! But for the love of god, please tell me you were in an aerobat with chutes???

[Layne.]

Yes i was lucky enough to be instructed by the Aerobatics Instructor at Tyabb Peninsula Aero Club... No i didn't have a chute because all we planned to do is stall recovery, a loop-de-loop, steep turns and a wing-over but it got too windy so we had limited things to practice next flight in Q4

Edit- The barrel roll i did was different as we had to dive down then pitch u then roll then level off i hit 3G's max in the pitch and -1G on the pitch down

[EJW]

Wow. That's lucky. Wish I could do that!

[flavio]

Thats pretty cool. 3.5 is about the most I've hit so far, but hopefully thatll change if I make it into the Air Force. Neg G's are definately fun though, however I don tget the stomach thing ever anymore like I did in the beginning, which took a lot of the fun away but added a new level of precision to my maneuvers, which is cool. Im wondering how Ill do next time I ride a rollercoaster. Hopefully I can still get a kick out of it. Your lucky you get to fly aerobatics!

[olderndirt]

A barrel roll is a purely positive maneuver.

[Layne.]

[quote]A barrel roll is a purely positive maneuver.

[Mitch.]

Sounds like you had a good time Layne.

Tunnel vision at 5G's is interesting and flying inverted for about 5 minutes is fun, you've got to go for a proper aerobatics flight in a Pitts.

[Layne.]

Sounds like you had a good time Layne.

Tunnel vision at 5G's is interesting and flying inverted for about 5 minutes is fun, you've got to go for a proper aerobatics flight in a Pitts.

Nice work Mitch

Yeah even that barrel roll was fun but i was freaking out i must admit, i still didn't let go of the yoke which is an accomplishment for me

BTW This is the Cessna 152 i first flew in so i love this one

Anyway i think the Airforce will have much more in store for me


P.S: I love the skyroof on the Aerobat's awesome when inverted

[olderndirt]

We pitched down (almost straight down) then pitched up about 20 on the artificial horizion then rolled it for what seemed like it never ended

As long as the dirt stays on the floor where it belongs