Awesome video. Aside from the real-life value of it, it also has an extra kind of value for us pretend-pilots like Les pointed out in his post.
For me, it was very interesting to see how much it takes a piston engine to seize when its left without oil. I'm just glad the guy got out of it ok so i won't feel bad for gaining knowledge from other people's misfortunes.
Although to say the truth, i think damaging that bird does account for a significant amount of grief but things were definitively under control at all times and risk to life and limb (not only the pilot's, but people on the ground as well) was minimized through proper operation of the aircraft, well done to the guy.
Most of these aerobatic fliers go up with parachutes strapped on, maybe he could have just trimmed it to fly into the ground at an empty spot and bail out, but he chose to stick with it and try to save both the aircraft and the people on the ground.
And now for the million dollar question: after watching this in almost first person view thanks to the guy's helmet-mounted camera and seeing that wall of rocks on the field border, are you sure you still want hedgerows modelled in SoW?
11-03-2010, 10:47 PM
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