PMD
Well-Known Member
Unfortunate that a fatal crash made me think of this, but flight safety comes from learning hopefully from someone else's mistakes.
I am only an occasional and barely trained aerobatic pilot so have stayed well and truly high (er...at altitude, not drug induced) when doing so. Even at that I have often thought about what I would do if coming close to surface coming out of dive. My instinct would be go onto the boulders (ref: pebbles, rocks, boulders on accelerated stall feedback) to shed as much airspeed at possible but never sure of the tradeoff of time in stall cost greater radius in the pullup from stall vs. tighter radius from less airspeed. Being as how the latter is a second order relationshhip, going with that.
I am only an occasional and barely trained aerobatic pilot so have stayed well and truly high (er...at altitude, not drug induced) when doing so. Even at that I have often thought about what I would do if coming close to surface coming out of dive. My instinct would be go onto the boulders (ref: pebbles, rocks, boulders on accelerated stall feedback) to shed as much airspeed at possible but never sure of the tradeoff of time in stall cost greater radius in the pullup from stall vs. tighter radius from less airspeed. Being as how the latter is a second order relationshhip, going with that.
