karlbamforth
Newbie
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2005
- Messages
- 1,336
- Location
- Langkawi, Malaysia
- Aircraft
- Fixed wing/ rotary
- Total Flight Time
- 500+
Only really been scared twice in aircraft,
I was down the back of a Seneca on a short hop. Weather was cloudy and we had climbed above it no problem. At our destination we popped out of cloud at about 100ft above the threshold of the runway, the pilot then started doing very steep S turns to lose altitude. He did 3 S's with the stall warner blaring all the time at low altitude. He got us down but I refused the offer of a return trip and went home by car.
On another occasion I scrounged a lift with 2 pilots on a navex back to base, I was in the back and fell asleep, when I woke to the sound of the stall warner to see we were in cloud, the aircraft was cycling between overspeed and the stall warner sounding about every 5 seconds. The two guys up front were arguing about what to do. It seemed like forever but was probably only a few mins before we flew out of the cloud and normal service resumed. I now only do the trip by commercial airliner or with me sat up front.
Birdy, get some G force style landing gear then the amount of un-landable terrain you fly over will decrease. :yo:
I was down the back of a Seneca on a short hop. Weather was cloudy and we had climbed above it no problem. At our destination we popped out of cloud at about 100ft above the threshold of the runway, the pilot then started doing very steep S turns to lose altitude. He did 3 S's with the stall warner blaring all the time at low altitude. He got us down but I refused the offer of a return trip and went home by car.
On another occasion I scrounged a lift with 2 pilots on a navex back to base, I was in the back and fell asleep, when I woke to the sound of the stall warner to see we were in cloud, the aircraft was cycling between overspeed and the stall warner sounding about every 5 seconds. The two guys up front were arguing about what to do. It seemed like forever but was probably only a few mins before we flew out of the cloud and normal service resumed. I now only do the trip by commercial airliner or with me sat up front.
Birdy, get some G force style landing gear then the amount of un-landable terrain you fly over will decrease. :yo:
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