Time for an undie change

[Mogul]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=242969593300100

Wow !!!!!

 

[RooFlyer]

Not sure what @jb747 or @AviatorInsight would make if that Sim, but the g-forces seem at least one component missing!! ( But Knowing of course that they can't be simulated in that environment) ... Especially with such a fast 'recovery' ! Would the aircraft have survived do you think?

 

[AviatorInsight]

Not sure what @jb747 or @AviatorInsight would make if that Sim, but the g-forces seem at least one component missing!! ( But Knowing of course that they can't be simulated in that environment) ... Especially with such a fast 'recovery' ! Would the aircraft have survived do you think?

That’s not a sim. But the pilots did do a lot of things right. Especially holding off the urge to pull up when the wings weren’t level.

In the sim though we do those kinds of recovery (not the inverted part), especially with this new training the company is developing in light of events from the last couple of years.

 

[RooFlyer]

That’s not a sim.

Yes, sorry, didn't mean a professional type sim . But was the time to recover from the nose-dive realistic and could the plane survive it?

 

[Mogul]

Yes, sorry, didn't mean a professional type sim . But was the time to recover from the nose-dive realistic and could the plane survive it?

The footage is the actual footage from the test flight, so yes time to recover was realistic and yes the plane survived otherwise no footage.

 

[RooFlyer]

The footage is the actual footage from the test flight, so yes time to recover was realistic and yes the plane survived otherwise no footage.

Strewth, thanks for the clarification.

What flight / test was it? The pilot looked a bit casually dressed and with the banter afterwards I assumed it was a Joe public simulated flight.

 

[jb747]

In the sim though we do those kinds of recovery (not the inverted part), especially with this new training the company is developing in light of events from the last couple of years.

My last sim was only a month or so before I retired, and it did include the inverted part. The senior check led into it with the comment “Let’s see if you remember how to be a fighter pilot”.

It might give some of the non pilots here an idea of both the violence, and the rapidity, of a ‘departure’. The G loading probably wasn’t all that high....perhaps 3.

 

[AviatorInsight]

My last sim was only a month or so before I retired, and it did include the inverted part. The senior check led into it with the comment “Let’s see if you remember how to be a fighter pilot”.

It might give some of the non pilots here an idea of both the violence, and the rapidity, of a ‘departure’. The G loading probably wasn’t all that high....perhaps 3.

That’s great! I’d actually welcome the inverted part, although no fighter training in my background it’ll certainly take me back to my aerobatic days.

 

[AviatorInsight]

What flight / test was it? The pilot looked a bit casually dressed and with the banter afterwards I assumed it was a Joe public simulated flight.

I believe it was the first test flight for the 717. That particular aircraft is now broken up and used for parts from what I’ve read.

 

[RooFlyer]

I wonder what MCAS would have made of it?