Originally Posted by
jimtx
You can roll and pull. You just have a limit. T-38 max weight, straight pull - 6g, asymmetric pull - 4.4g.
Sure, that's true. But what do you think is a pilot's capacity to respect this limit, when doing
- something extremely startling and disorienting
- for the first time in their life
- there is no instrument in the cockpit showing this information
- as the airspeed is rapidly shooting toward the limit, forcing you to pull high G to level off
- the airplane is trimmed for a big pull without the pilot doing anything
- and there is an overwhelming instinct to pull also