Fuji.
Extra points if you can work the quote attribution magic.
Originally Posted by Fuji Abound To Fly Into One Of His Mates These Days, Only Joshing Guv
All very valid if we were talking about formation flying but I think we moved away from that many posts ago.
Well, lets return to the detail of the OP's query....
Originally Posted by The Original Poster
More specifically, I'm thinking about the scenario where we would have three or four aerobatics pilots who all want to participate in an aeros contest a significant (two hours or more) distance away from our home base (Rotterdam), but the aeros plane itself can only take two people and virtually no baggage, and has a very limited (barely sufficient) avionics stack for long-distance touring. The other plane then would be an IFR Warrior or Diamond or something taking the other two pilots, the bags and such.
I apologise for my less than crystal-clear style, but the point I was making was to always plan for the worst outcome as well as the best when dealing with more than one aircraft - and that close formation training provides an excellent grounding for this. As for the OP - he refers to aerobatic pilots - being a competition aerobatic pilot myself, I can readily confirm that I would sooner stick my end in a coffee grinder than attempt another formation/in company transit with aerobatic pilots without formal formation training - generally superb at the stick and rudder part, generally a disaster in the teamwork department
