"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
Ramapriya wrote:

What's buzzing? I've heard it's some kind of a feel-good maneuver..

Flying very low at relatively high speed. For a typical "buzz job", you would
dive at the object you wanted to buzz, level off a few feet above the highest
point there, fly over it, and climb rapidly. It's a dangerous maneuver due to
the risk of getting too low and hitting something and the risk that you might
get distracted during the climb out, let the speed bleed off too far, and stall.
Only two types of pilots do buzz jobs; 1) professionals who are practicing or
getting paid to do low level aerobatics, and 2) fools.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.


The genesis of this Q was the experience related by a member of the
crew of Steely Dan (my fav band, incidentally) about a charter plane
pilot buzzing with the band members inside. He recollects it being
thrilling and a wee unnerving too.

I did a Teoma search on the term before actually asking you guys, so I
wasn't trolling at all, like Schmoe suspected

George Patterson's answer comes very close to the description of the
actual experience itself, which sounded like it was a maneuver
involving a sudden nosedive with no prior thrust decrease and leveling
off mightily close to the ground and pulling back up again.

But this is quite different from what others have written, which is
more like what some overenthusiastic young Indian Air Force pilots
have been known to do close to female hostels in cities across India -
fly real low and shatter the peace :\

Ramapriya