{"id":2551,"date":"2013-12-19T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T02:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:57","slug":"93-just-like-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/93-just-like-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"#93 Just Like a Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve flown a lot of kids.\u00a0 There\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve noticed about most of them.\u00a0 Although most kids are afraid of real aerobatic maneuvers like loops and rolls, they are almost universally delighted by the simple sensation of zero \u201cG\u201ds.\u00a0 You have a kid hold a wallet or a watch in the outstretched palm of their hand, then fly a parabola which subjects them to zero \u201cG\u201ds and, as that wallet or watch floats up out of their hand, they giggle in delight at both the sight of that object floating and the feeling of their own body becoming weightless<\/p>\n

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Jeannine tries out her first Super Cub… probably not her last!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s useful for us to revisit our childhood and remember simple delights.\u00a0 I have a friend who learned to fly somewhat late in life, but took to it easily and has become a very competent flier.\u00a0 Sometimes she likes to get together with me in order to \u201cstretch herself with skill level improvement\u201d.\u00a0 Today we flew out to have some fun.\u00a0 We circled John and Debbie\u2019s irrigation pivot.\u00a0 We flew at nap-of- the- earth, following the irrigation pivot\u2019s wheel tracks and flying a precise, fun low-level circle with the precision which would be impossible in the standard, FAA approved \u201cTurn about a point\u201d.\u00a0 As we passed the house, John waved at us from the deck, sharing our delight.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was steep turns that made me think of the YoYo. \u00a0We\u2019d discussed the roll of \u201cG\u201d force increasing stall speed as it keeps us at altitude during that 2\u201cG\u201d maneuver.<\/p>\n

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” she gritted her teeth a bit and pulled, watching the meter, feeling the \u201cG\u201d\u2019s and pulling two and a half \u201cG\u201d\u2019s.” (Bert Garrison photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I set us up with a relatively low power setting.\u00a0 I brought the nose gently up.\u00a0 Then, directing her attention to the \u201cG\u201d meter, I smartly lowered the nose and caused the \u201cG\u201dmeter to indicate \u00bd \u201cG\u201d.\u00a0 Then I let the speed build up in the ensuing dive before smartly raising the nose to cause the \u201cG\u201d meter to indicate two and a half \u201cG\u201ds.\u00a0 We scrunched into our seats under the pressure of the \u201cG\u201d force.\u00a0 That\u2019s all the demo she got.\u00a0 A flier has to perform this maneuver herself in order to avoid wooziness. \u00a0Besides, I have a personal philosophy of providing only the necessary demonstrations\u2026 A student has to be the one in control most of the time; not the teacher. It worked.\u00a0 As she changed the pitch of the little Cessna, I talked her through the YoYo.\u00a0 She watched the Accelerometer and giggled as her butt raised out of the seat at \u00bd \u201cG\u201d.\u00a0 Then she gritted her teeth a bit and pulled, watching the meter, feeling the \u201cG\u201d\u2019s and pulling two and a half \u201cG\u201d\u2019s.\u00a0 She repeated the process.\u00a0 After all, there\u2019s a reason it\u2019s called a \u201cYoYo\u201d.<\/p>\n

I was thinking to myself how unfettered our emotions and sense of thrill are when we are kids.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of a purity that we eventually discard.\u00a0 Maybe we shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 At least that\u2019s what I thought when I lightened up and floated through half a \u201cG\u201d, listening to Jeannine.\u00a0 She was gaining an understanding of \u201cG\u201d force which can be gained no other way, but of which most adult students are deprived when they learn to fly.\u00a0 Jeannine was picking it up fast and she was giggling\u2026\u00a0 just like a kid.<\/p>\n

(Remember my attorney, Murray Saperstein? <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0“Tsk, tsk, tsk,” \u00a0Murray clucked as he read this article.<\/em><\/p>\n

He knitted his brows as he expressed his alarm at the liability inherent in describing a maneuver like the Yo-Yo.\u00a0 He felt I was advocating that everyone, regardless of skill level, go out and practice the maneuver.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMurray\u201d, I replied, \u201chow about I tell everyone that my airplanes are always equipped with an accelerometer and that no one who is not experienced at aerobatics and applying \u201cG\u201d force should ever perform such a maneuver?\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Murray grudgingly allowed as how that would be okay.\u00a0 You just read it.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Swooping!<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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