Air Force Guy Headed to Whiting

[e6bflyer]

It goes past 4.5 Gs all the time. Personally, I've never done it to myself, but it happens. I do remember getting a little over-zealous w/ a Mid in the back and pegging 4.500000000000000 Gs. I was worried about what the rear meter said, but fortunately, I guess I caught it in time.

I have had a few over Gs, a couple due to me not blocking over zealous students and one due to me avoiding going into a cloud during a cruise form wingover.

In CORTRAMID, I had a plane whose rear cockpit G meter would not go past 4.0, so once I was good and tolerant to G's, I regularly over G'd the rear meter.

Trust me, it goes past 4.5 no problems. That being said, with the exception of the CORTRAMID plane, I have never exceeded 5G's and never clicked the airframe accelerometers (in CORTRAMID, I put 9 clicks on, but the maintainers refused to replace the G meter in the front).

 

[Gatordev]

Trust me, it goes past 4.5 no problems. That being said, with the exception of the CORTRAMID plane, I have never exceeded 5G's and never clicked the airframe accelerometers (in CORTRAMID, I put 9 clicks on, but the maintainers refused to replace the G meter in the front).

That's weird. We had a similar issue last year and Ken just moved the rear meter to the front and everything was good.

In a related story... I was flying w/ one USNA mid (yeah...you want to be a Marine but you're hair is that long?) and ended up having to wait down by the point where the river goes inland where you call Arrival. I think some Hornet dude was clobbering the radios, so we started orbiting. I let the mid turn while I was fiddling w/ something in the cockpit. He didn't roll much more than what I told him, but he just kept pulling back on the stick. Because he caught me w/ my head down, my vision was going quick before I could get out a "Easy...easy...Stop PULLING! <sigh off ICS> Okay, I have controls, let's head in."

No over-G, but that whole flight was weird.

 

[fastnumber15]

Yeah I am still keeping up with everything. Alot of helpful info, although some of the acronyms are out of my vocabulary currently, I get the jist of most things. Flew a King Air today for some fun so staying up to date on my flying as much as possible. Look forward to gettting there. Thanks for all the input and info.