Sep 7, 2023·edited Sep 7, 2023Liked by Latham Turner
Woah, I'm curious if you ever found out what on earth happened with that plane. But this was exhilarating. Your description of what it feels like to "tempt fate" was insanely vivid and good.
I never found out for sure, but I think we got into an off-nominal spin and then when I input recovery controls so quickly, it didn't have enough airflow to respond to the input. It usually doesn't respond to steady state in a full spin. In other words, by slamming the controls so fast to recover I caused the airplane to not have enough authority to do what I wanted it to. It needed a slower input.
My Southern nickname was Dooley, or Dually, as one of my baseball teammates wrote it on a card. Not my first choice either, but I learned to embrace it.
The end is me literally "NOOOOOOO" out loud, hahaha!! YES!! Another classic, pulse-pounding Latham ride! And thanks for the broomstick reference to give us civilian layfolk something to grab onto (no pun intended?)
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Woah, I'm curious if you ever found out what on earth happened with that plane. But this was exhilarating. Your description of what it feels like to "tempt fate" was insanely vivid and good.
Same.
I never found out for sure, but I think we got into an off-nominal spin and then when I input recovery controls so quickly, it didn't have enough airflow to respond to the input. It usually doesn't respond to steady state in a full spin. In other words, by slamming the controls so fast to recover I caused the airplane to not have enough authority to do what I wanted it to. It needed a slower input.
Woah, so in those situations you ACTUALLY had to stay calm and CALMLY put in the recovery controls
Thanks for doing such a good job bringing us into the cockpit with you. This is another great post.
Thank you Renato. I'm glad you liked it
Boy! My lunch too!
I came to love OCF flights, but not this first time.
Really vivid! Love the nickname, too.
Thanks Josh. I'd love to say I picked it, but that's not the way things work.
My Southern nickname was Dooley, or Dually, as one of my baseball teammates wrote it on a card. Not my first choice either, but I learned to embrace it.
The end is me literally "NOOOOOOO" out loud, hahaha!! YES!! Another classic, pulse-pounding Latham ride! And thanks for the broomstick reference to give us civilian layfolk something to grab onto (no pun intended?)
yeah, being made an OCF instructor ended up being a blessing, but not what I wanted in this moment.
Glad you liked it. More to come.