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Pitts performs close fly-by, FAA looking into it.
Stunt videotaped might have pilot in hot water with the FAA. (www.kens5.com) More...
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I don't understand where in the FAR/AIM it says you can fly within 500' of people in aerobatic flight. From my understanding, it only allows unusual attitudes, altitudes, and acceleration.Can someone clear this up for me? How are you legally able to buzz a human with an airplane?
When I was a kid, one task I had on the farm was flagging for cropdusters, where I stood on the end of the crop and held a flag for the pilot to aim at from the other end, and when he was correctly aligned, flying about 2 or 3 feet off the ground, I'd run out of the way, the correct distance across the crop, so he could align again after a tight turn, and so on. Being missed by a few feet each time was normal, and I probably ducked about 200 times a year! If everyone involved is aware of what's going on, it isn't dangerous.
Reminiscing about those times brings to mind the day I went for a fly as a passenger in a Piper Pawnee. I was a strapping 6ft teenager, and the flight was with the window open, me sitting on the window edge with half my bum sticking out, one leg around behind the pilot's head, the other down across his chest, one arm inside behind his head holding on to somewhere/thing, and the other arm outside, holding on to the radio aerial I think. With a bit of bending, my head was just far enough inside to be out of the slipstream. Then we did the necessary spraying, which included flying under powerlines across the end of the field, and more than once we banked at 90degrees to go between big trees because going over them was too far above the crop!
And my parents and others were watching - all insanely jealous - but nobody thought it was dangerous enough not to do it. In fact I'd do it again tomorrow. Anyone got a Pawnee?
And my parents and others were watching - all insanely jealous - but nobody thought it was dangerous enough not to do it. In fact I'd do it again tomorrow. Anyone got a Pawnee?
Back in the day, the Pawnee was king. Are they even making them anymore?
you should be an adult novel author...lol..... I was a strapping 6ft teenager, and the flight was with the window open, me sitting on the window edge with half my bum sticking out, one leg around behind the pilot's head, the other down across his chest, one arm inside behind his head........lol....classic
And ain't no doubt in my mind that it wasn't true. He does have a way with the words though.lol
