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Paul,Paul van der Linden wrote:Take a look at the ejection from this MiG-29 at Le Bourget in 1989, amazing dat he lived to tell!
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No. That's rumour only.bazsi wrote:I heard that different pilots flew on Friday and Sunday. Can anyone confirm it?
I hope that didn't get you to excited... A warning for graphic content should have been added. Very distastefull film. Adding a bit of music doesn't help.Hans van der Vlist wrote:
Take a look at the ejection of the Su-27 crash at Lviv. At 1.57 on the video you see the second pilot ejected very close to an Il-76 wing !!
Hi,michel N wrote:I saw the crash at Radom happening, and after realising both pilots tragically died, I wondered why they are using a two-seater, with two pilots on board (most demoteams which use two-seaters, only fly with one pilot) for a risky business like demo flying. Does anyone know why these SU-27UB's are flying these demo's with two pilots? As most of you know, the crash in Lviv was flown with 2 pilots, and I thought the Russian Knights crash of 2 weeks ago also involved a 2-seater with two pilots.
regards,
MIchel
Although the average hours of flying time for he Belarus pilots seem to be prity low, I have read nowhere yet about these particular pilots. All I know is that manoeuvres during the qualification flight on Friday were very well executed (above average on airshows).Paul van der Linden wrote: I am not an expert but especially for non experienced demo pilots, which the Belarus pilots definitely were, it can be easy when another pilot is assisting in "flying" the display routine?
I think demo flying should be forbidden when it is "risky business" but I think it is absolutely safe to fly a well calculated demo routine by a well trained pilot who perfectly knows what he is doing. When you look at the records there were very few crashes by professional well trained demo pilots in the past twenty years or so. Despite that they were very interesting aircraft from a number cruncher point of view, I am therefore very happy that the Ukrainian Falcons no longer exist (talking about risky business..)
Regards, Paul
Hi Jaap,Jaap wrote:Although the average hours of flying time for he Belarus pilots seem to be prity low, I have read nowhere yet about these particular pilots. All I know is that manoeuvres during the qualification flight on Friday were very well executed (above average on airshows).Paul van der Linden wrote: I am not an expert but especially for non experienced demo pilots, which the Belarus pilots definitely were, it can be easy when another pilot is assisting in "flying" the display routine?
I think demo flying should be forbidden when it is "risky business" but I think it is absolutely safe to fly a well calculated demo routine by a well trained pilot who perfectly knows what he is doing. When you look at the records there were very few crashes by professional well trained demo pilots in the past twenty years or so. Despite that they were very interesting aircraft from a number cruncher point of view, I am therefore very happy that the Ukrainian Falcons no longer exist (talking about risky business..)
Regards, Paul
Having seen that, I rate them as above average demo pilots, although the number of Sukhoi crashes suggests that you need way-above average pilots for this plane!
my two cents,
Jaap
Fortunately Sheik is flying more then every two weeks. Actually there is a given period for our F-16 display (and I thought that period is your two weeks) that, if the pilot hasn't flown his display, he has to be requalified by his basecommander before being allowed to go public again.Paul van der Linden wrote:Compare this to the number of training flights by for example our demo F-16 flown by a very experienced pilot which is now in his third season and flying his demo every two weeks or so!
Polish AF Mig-29 demo and US Navy Superhornet are both flying two-seaters with both pilots (in case of Superhornet - WSO). Why - no idea...michel N wrote:I saw the crash at Radom happening, and after realising both pilots tragically died, I wondered why they are using a two-seater, with two pilots on board (most demoteams which use two-seaters, only fly with one pilot) for a risky business like demo flying. Does anyone know why these SU-27UB's are flying these demo's with two pilots? As most of you know, the crash in Lviv was flown with 2 pilots, and I thought the Russian Knights crash of 2 weeks ago also involved a 2-seater with two pilots.
regards,
MIchel
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