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5,000 FT Roller Coaster in the California Sierras
On Jun 1, 8:54*pm, Mark Jardini wrote:
Way below my minimums... mj Me too! Made my palms sweaty just watching. |
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5,000 FT Roller Coaster in the California Sierras
On May 31, 9:55*pm, 33 wrote:
we punctuated the weekend with a roller coaster ride from Mount Whitney peak ... I shot a video of the ride and loaded it on YouTube for anyone that is interested. It can be found at *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjTmNJmJXbk Thanks for a great video. In watching it, when you were very close to terrain your ASI appeared to be between 60 and 70 kts most of the time, with at least one excursion down to 55. Was that an optical illusion due to the lens? If not, in hindsight would you have maintained a higher speed? Your later post noting that "flying close to the terrain can be dangerous and should only be performed with adequate separation according to personal safety margins" was an important addition. Thanks for that! One of the recommendations in a talk I gave to the PASCO Soaring Safety Seminar in 2007 http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/...2007_talk.html was to urge more experienced pilots to include such cautions when relating exciting flights to an audience that might include those with less experience and includes a link to an NTSB accident report in which a student pilot was probably killed partly because of a lack of such warnings. Thanks again for the video. Martin |
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