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Old April 25th 06, 12:36 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Cool aerobatic video in a Sukhoi SU-29.

You can call it whatever you like- however the acro was pretty entry level
and not that crisp. It was certainly nowhere near what the airplane was
capable of doing.

My friends and I have tried this in the past, and from the cockpit it just
doesn't look that good -you just don't get a sense of the g forces on the
video. I ended up scratching the inside of the canopy of my Extra with the
helmet cam as well. If I had the computer savvy to make a streaming video I
could send it.

This summer we plan on doing some more video with a minicam mounted on a
strut of a Pitts, which may show more of the action.

I am far from an expert acro pilot, but it was obvious from the video that
the figures could have been flown more cleanly. You can call it cool, but
the flying just wasn't that good.