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03-22-2020, 09:54 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Alma, AR
Posts: 8
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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.
www.aviaspire.com
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RV-6, 0-320 FP wood prop
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03-22-2020, 10:34 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,768
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Be VERY careful doing 2-up aerobatics in RV-6. Aerobatic gross weight is 1375 lbs.
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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03-22-2020, 11:22 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Leesburg, VA
Posts: 551
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G Limits over aerobatic gross weight
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Originally Posted by Mel
Be VERY careful doing 2-up aerobatics in RV-6. Aerobatic gross weight is 1375 lbs.
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Mel,
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?
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Jim
Leesburg, VA (KJYO)
RV4 N444JT (  sold)
RV8 N37PK
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03-22-2020, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Metamora, Michigan
Posts: 209
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I am curious what your weight is with an instructor and two parachutes.
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John von Linsowe
Michigan
RV-7
Cessna 140
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03-22-2020, 12:10 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Alma, AR
Posts: 8
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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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03-22-2020, 02:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Lake Havasu City AZ
Posts: 2,393
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Aerobatics
Parachutes??
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03-22-2020, 03:45 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Livermore, CA
Posts: 6,797
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jrs14855
Parachutes??
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Parachutes are required per the FARs when doing aerobatics with more than the required crew on-board. There is an exemption for cfi?s teaching ?...any maneuver required for any rating...? but that would not include anything inverted.
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03-22-2020, 05:51 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Alma, AR
Posts: 8
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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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03-22-2020, 08:05 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Lake Havasu City AZ
Posts: 2,393
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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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03-22-2020, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Lake Havasu City AZ
Posts: 2,393
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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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