Greg Arnold wrote:

I did a high-speed low pass pullup 180 once. Just once.
I was low energy on the last 30 degrees of turn back and didn't
like it. Fortunately there was nobody around to see my cross-runway
landing. I don't think I'll do it again.


Sounds like your "high-speed" wasn't that fast. If you didn't have
enough altitude to make a normal landing, something was wrong with your
technique.

LOL. Yep, I thought I said that already

But there are "other" factors. Bumpy air means you can either overstress
by flying above Va, or dive only to Va and be lower energy. At Va,
a pullup in a ballasted 40:1 glider is different than that same pullup
in a PW-2. Come on out, Greg, and try your perfect "technique" in a
draggy PW-2 and I'll videotape it.

This is similar to my Baby Ace. Even at Vne dive with proper technique,
it is so draggy and underpowered that it is very hard to finish a loop
without stalling inverted. Quite different than a Lancair...

Then again, I'm a "tilter" hehehe...

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Mark J. Boyd