![]() ![]() The mountains there are pretty “steep” so you get good angles to do the maneuver. When I’m home I can find the Airport code and others can try it too. So I had difficulty getting the nose to react to the pitch I wanted if I had too much or too little thrust. The more water (less thrust) the less bouyant you are and the more you sink. The best way I came to think about it is buoyancy. Well now handling it by hand - I got particularly good at cutting out the engines or engaging afterburners to give me the lift I needed. I never considered why on autopilot the thrust is constantly up and down. In the beginning I was using the “pitch” (elevators?) to control the flight. I learned that thrust is almost everything. I learned to stop fighting the reaction of the aircraft, let it do what it wants then give it little adjustments. That when you roll or invert it’s easy to leave your elevators at the wrong angle and you lose stability and the plane wants to naturally roll. Things I learned is that the plane becomes unstable near vertical and low power. ![]() I think you can see where I’m going with this: I ended up figuring out how to do the Top Gun 2 roll maneuver over the mountain ridge lol. I ended up spending 12 hours flying out of some Himalayan mountain airport at 11,000feet and flying up a canyon to a ridge line south then over the ridge line down another canyon that ended in a ridge that I could pop over, and down further into India. I never really paid attention to the concepts of actual flight so all this I had to figure out on my own since I’ve never been formally taught. When I tried the F-18 it opened a whole new world. I’ve enjoyed learning the systems of things like the 747 and now the A310-300, mostly relying on following the procedures and ILS approaches. ![]()
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