Originally Posted by
megan
And thank god for the altitude you had available below you I guess
Mog. Base height set too high
Indeed! Prob was due to mid-handling a braking-stop manoeuvre at base ht (5000’) over the Med. Ended up going down like a train with yaw vane at 90 left and wings level, rotating in yaw 360 degrees/sec. Broke the jam by shoving the nozzles aft and getting a face full of sea at 3000’ with the nadir star in the centre of the HUD.
Normally requires c 5000’ to recover from vertical but luckily the “display pug-up recovery” worked - hover stop, full power, 8 units AoA. Recovered at 1500’ and knocked it off!
Beers on me that night. Luckily the HUD camera was running as I was about to take a shot, so Handling Squadron got to see it!
Another of the 9 gone.
Mog