Originally Posted by
Thomas coupling
You've changed crab!
The manouevre was smoothly executed, beautifully caught on camera and may or may not have technically gone aerobatic.
BUT the pilot was a ******** for executing a manouevre inappropriate to the conditions prevailing.
He was almost certainly showing off, naive for being filmed in such an embarrasing situation and most definitely not operating within a safe flight regime should something even relatively minor have gone wrong like a bird strike or woe betide - more serious like a wire strike.
Nil points for professionalism. If he'd been employed by me he'd be sacked before he RTB'd.
TW*T. Methinks.
Yes, absolutely. I don't see crab saying otherwise ?