I had seen/read about that video elsewhere awhile back. The post above from gb sounds familiar. He was in a test pilot situation and he tried numerous things, full power, no power, control positions, etc before pulling the chute. I think he had said that he even waited after shutting the engine down to see if that helped recover it.
The hardest part, according to what i read, was to actually make the decision to pull the chute instead of continuing to believe he could find the answer.
A friend of a friend was in a Pitts over NH years ago and had promised himself that if he was ever in uncontrolled flight below his personal hard deck he would bail out. He did, and lived to continue flying to this day. But like the pilot above I’m sure that was a hard decision to make in a split second.
There’s a very good instructor near me that preaches about how invaluable airplanes are. Both the million dollar warbirds and the ones you just invested 2/3/4 years of your lifeblood to build. He recommends that builders don’t take the first few flights in their build because they will try to save the airplane should something happen. They have too much invested to do what’s right, and park the airplane where they can walk away. Even if that’s in the trees.
Takes a lot of discipline. Are you disciplined enough?
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