Re: Putting the "P" in piloting

Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" <dhenriques@xxxxxxx> wrote

If you're the instructor and the guy who has to go is the student, it's always fun to pull in a little positive pitch input every once in a while; just enough to put about .5 positive g on the airplane. It compresses the guy's *** into the seat just a bit and "enhances the experience" for the instructor.
And to think that before this "crappy discussion" got started I had almost forgotten how much fun it was teaching in these airplanes. :-))

Yep. I'm sure that many things not mention here have taken place in times of need.

About the pulling the extra .5 G, that would be fun - for the instructor. ;-) I would imagine some quick oscillations between -.5 and quickly back to 1.5 a few times would increase the pain and pleasure in an even better way. Of course, there is the old test pilot bit about checking a new bird for flutter by "rapping the stick" with the *** of your hand. A quick succession of those would be good to try, too.

I'm really quite evil, (in a calm kind of way) when I put my mind to it! <g>

I had recently talked about driving school bus, some. I had a couple students in class that I enjoyed, and we liked to have fun kidding each other, and they also rode the bus home every day. They were the last off, or close to it, and had probably been riding for close to an hour and a half before they got off. One of them made the mistake of telling me that they had started the ride with a big bottle of Coke, and needed to relieve themselves very soon, and would be glad to get off the bus.

I said, "Oh, it was a BIG mistake to tell me that!" I then proceeded to hit every pothole (there were plenty of them on this backroad route) and rattled the bus impressively. They were truly begging for mercy, in short order. After a couple more good bumps, I relented. <g>


I'm a rather dubious character myself and I have what my wife calls a "slightly twisted" sense of humor.
In the old days it was things like bouncing heads off the canopy doing snaps in the S2 Pitts and taking people for pleasure flights carrying a thick looseleaf notebook with me out to the airplane with the title stenciled in bold white letters on the front "HOW TO FLY".
But my absolute best was our next door neighbors dog routine.
The people next door had this nutcase of a Rotweiler who had this idiosyncrasy of being totally docile UNLESS someone made eye contact with him. As soon as he locked eyeballs with someone he would go absolutely nuts, charge the person, stop short and stand there barking like hell at them. He was harmless enough but unfortunately I wasn't :-)

Anytime we had new people at the house, and I knew the dog was in the yard next door, my wife would cringe as I deviously set the trap.
I'd tell the people that no matter what happened, no matter how strong the temptation, when they left, no matter what, they should NOT make eye contact with the dog next door.

Of course the instant you tell someone NOT to do something like that, they will HAVE to do it. The temptation and human nature being what they are :-))
Anyway, I'd clue everybody who was staying in on what to expect, and we'd all just sit there waiting.
The door would close and within 2 seconds (I think that was the record) the entire house would reverberate with the sound of a snaling and barking dog!!
What a hoot!! I think the dog lived for 15 years. He never once let me down!

And you don't even want to know about the cat and the can opener :-))
DH

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