Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
Flying well is a choice. On that run to the bacon butty you can choose to fly well or not. Flying well means a takeoff that stays on centerline with a smooth lift off, a climb at a constant pitch attitude giving you the correct climb speed, cruise altitude kept plus/minus 50 feet, making all you plog times, planning a descent so that only one power reduction is needed to join the circuit, landing smoothly on centerline and at the intended touch down point, along with a whole host of little things that collectively makes the flight go smoothly and safely.
However you have to be adult enough to take the internalized satisfaction of knowing you have flown as well as you can...
I don't think I've ever achieved the perfection you describe. So I'd have to agree that precise flight is a high skill endeavour. But then yer go and shoot yer-self in the foot...
...I know this can be difficult for people who need the ego boost from a "look at me, I am such a Sky God" stunts like watersking an aircraft.
.....he got away with demonstrating poor pilot decision making
.....Want to learn to fly accurately ? Take an aerobatics course. Flying an accurate smooth linked set of aerobatics takes way more skill than watersking.
I had a look at the thread starter post video and as I alluded to in my previous post it looks to be a training flight. If you turn the volume up it sounds like there is a slight power reduction as the aircraft approaches the gravel bar though the pilot powers up and goes round. I'd suggest if the gravel bar wern't the target and the 'spectacle' were the task then the pilot would have done the manoeuvre to track clear of the gravel bar:
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%...%21123&o=OneUp
"...aerobatics takes way more skill than watersking..."
Big Pistons Forever, how do you know that. Are you commenting from practical experience ?
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