Jeanie
Pattern Altitude
Just got back from Llano today... Been at the hammerfest contest. Volunteered as registrar/scorer and didn't compete. There were 40 pilots that competed, gracious the days were long and hot. There were several people who flew primary in a great lakes... And several that flew in Debbie Rihns decathlon. So the primary and intermediate categories were mixed to allow for change up of students and climbs in slow draggy but graceful planes I got to meet Debbie, she came in her CAP 232 which is way cool to watch in the unlimited category and she is a wonderful lady.
I did get to fly a Giles 202 today for the first time very different from a decathlon!.... Plus 7 Gs and minus 3 Gs... Fast rolls straight and level and roles on an upline which when I did it became torque rolls and after a few tries I got the vertical upline set just right. After the unintended torque roll it was a crap recovery but ya'know that's ok it was funny and when it happened again I recovered better. I did a half roll on the vertical up followed by a hammer and plain hammers,immelmanns and a couple slow rolls just fine. And rolling on the downline was easy. Andrew snapped it and did a roller which I think was the neg 3 push. Honestly that was enough at that point. I'm not good at negative stuff and well, haven't been pulling Gs at all this year so I'd had it at 20mins. I flew about 15 mins of it... So next time I'll eat a proper breakfast (which would've helped) and I'll have, hopefully, increased my G tolerance so maybe I can make it 25 mins. Ha!
The hardest part, really, was getting out of it when we got back to the hangar
If you want to see what the Giles looks like and videos of Andrew flying it go to www.carbonfiberairshows.com
I did get to fly a Giles 202 today for the first time very different from a decathlon!.... Plus 7 Gs and minus 3 Gs... Fast rolls straight and level and roles on an upline which when I did it became torque rolls and after a few tries I got the vertical upline set just right. After the unintended torque roll it was a crap recovery but ya'know that's ok it was funny and when it happened again I recovered better. I did a half roll on the vertical up followed by a hammer and plain hammers,immelmanns and a couple slow rolls just fine. And rolling on the downline was easy. Andrew snapped it and did a roller which I think was the neg 3 push. Honestly that was enough at that point. I'm not good at negative stuff and well, haven't been pulling Gs at all this year so I'd had it at 20mins. I flew about 15 mins of it... So next time I'll eat a proper breakfast (which would've helped) and I'll have, hopefully, increased my G tolerance so maybe I can make it 25 mins. Ha!
The hardest part, really, was getting out of it when we got back to the hangar
If you want to see what the Giles looks like and videos of Andrew flying it go to www.carbonfiberairshows.com
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