Originally Posted by BEagle
But we regularly pulled 5G in the JP without them, even when there wasn't the current fitness obsession. Didn't seem to be a problem; neither was 7G in the Hawk (or 8G once in a Hunter T7...
) - so I wonder whether there's some benefit from repeated exposure to G forces as well as the various straining manoeuvres taught nowadays? Although sustaining 9G is something very different, of course.
And we can pull 6G without the aid of a g-suit too, but as you rightly suggest, instantaneous G is relatively easy, it's sustained G that is difficult, hence the extra PT and G-straining manoeuvres.
I think they know what they're doing!
