How LOW have you've flown?

I am always drooling over the videos of cubs flying down a valley 30' above
the river. It looks like a blast but I always wonder about being high enough
that you're within gliding distance of a place to land if the engine crapped out.
I realize that's not always practical but it does seem risky to fly that low.

Is that just a crazy-ass thing to do?
 
VictorValencia said:
I am always drooling over the videos of cubs flying down a valley 30' above
the river. It looks like a blast but I always wonder about being high enough
that you're within gliding distance of a place to land if the engine crapped out.
I realize that's not always practical but it does seem risky to fly that low.

Is that just a crazy-ass thing to do?
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Nope , no crazier then exceeding the speed limit on the interstate..

When your time is up... It is UP.....

Live life to the fullest.. :yes:
 
400ft AGL, nap of the earth terrain following, 540KGS plus, at night, on NVGs
Sometimes lower.
 
VictorValencia said:
I am always drooling over the videos of cubs flying down a valley 30' above
the river. It looks like a blast but I always wonder about being high enough
that you're within gliding distance of a place to land if the engine crapped out.
I realize that's not always practical but it does seem risky to fly that low.

Is that just a crazy-ass thing to do?
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Yes, because there are POWER LINES over those rivers...
 
BillTIZ said:
400ft AGL, nap of the earth terrain following, 540KGS plus, at night, on NVGs
Sometimes lower.
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You should do it the way one of my college bipod dies did, through Colorado Wyoming and Montana, holding 500' clearance in a loaded B-52 . . . Not exactly what BUFFs were designed for, and as Navigator, his lower deck ejection seat fired downwards. :eek:
 
pretty sure every pilot who has successfully taken off or landed, has flown at 1 foot, or even an infinitesimally small fraction of that……technically speaking
 
Hank S said:
You should do it the way one of my college bipod dies did, through Colorado Wyoming and Montana, holding 500' clearance in a loaded B-52 . . . Not exactly what BUFFs were designed for, and as Navigator, his lower deck ejection seat fired downwards. :eek:
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Gotta love autocorrect!!
 
35 AoA said:
pretty sure every pilot who has successfully taken off or landed, has flown at 1 foot, or even an infinitesimally small fraction of that……technically speaking
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Really..... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
35 AoA said:
pretty sure every pilot who has successfully taken off or landed, has flown at 1 foot, or even an infinitesimally small fraction of that……technically speaking
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How about blimp pilots??




(Okay, I'm sure most, if not all, blimp pilots have other ratings that let them actually land on the ground, not float over it.)
 
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