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Aerobatic training in your RV
For those interested in unusual attitude recovery and/or aerobatic training in your RV, I would suggest you contact Deirdre Gurry, based at WDG, Woodring Airport in Enid, OK. I had a great experience yesterday with her training me in my RV-6. I learned a lot and I understand my airplane much better. She owns an RV-6 and is a very capable aerobatics instructor. Please don't try to train yourself to do aerobatics.
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Be VERY careful doing 2-up aerobatics in RV-6. Aerobatic gross weight is 1375 lbs.
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G Limits over aerobatic gross weight
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We are all familiar with "gross weight" and G limits BELOW "aerobatic gross weight". Are there any published G limits for weights between aerobatic gross weight and gross weight? |
I am curious what your weight is with an instructor and two parachutes.
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Airplane empty weight 1007, 168 pilot, 130 instructor = 1305, 10 gal fuel and still some to spare.
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Aerobatics
Parachutes??
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I don't want an argument about if you should or shouldn't wear a parachute, in my opinion it is not a requirement in this training condition. But for me personally I would wear one if I thought I could actually get out of the airplane in case of structural failure. I have the tilt up canopy with the hinge release, but I do not think I could get out of the RV-6 in a situation were the airplane was uncontrollable. So I elected to not wear a chute. To each his own.
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Canopy
In the recent Midget Mustang fatal the departing canopy apparently took off half the horizontal and all of the vertical tail. Where the canopy goes depends on speed and attitude. I lost a canopy on the Sukhoi SU29 at around cruise speed. The canopy did not touch any part of the ,airplane when it departed. I was in the front and was not injured. The pilot in the back was hit in the face by the canopy handle. Another SU 29 lost the canopy with the pilot flying solo. He was not injured. The canopy landed intact and was reinstalled on the airplane.
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Parachutes
All LEGITIMATE aerobatic schools in the US require parachutes for all
Aerobatic training. You may find a benovelent Fed that accepts a passenger as a required crew member but it is more likely if you are caught you will incur anything from a formal reprimand to a suspension. |
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