BFR
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:15 am
I completed my first post-RV flying BFR today. Another RV pilot offered to do it for free, and I couldn't pass that up! He has way more flying experience and skill than I could ever hope to have. Ex-navy fighter pilot, Commercial airline experience, warbird formation lead, etc. etc. He really put me through some maneuvers in my RV-9A that were way beyond my normal type of flying. We did lots of steep stuff. Got to try doing overhead breaks. I don't think I've ever yanked on the controls that hard to turn before. We did a bunch of unusual attitude recoveries. Nose high attitudes, push in the power, drop a wing to let the nose fall and then recover without stalling. Nose low aiming at the ground and power off to recover gently pulling back. Some zero G parabolas. After about an hour of this I was really starting to sweat and have the stomach start to churn. We cut it off before I got sick, but I had that woozy feeling for hours later. We also did some really slow flight manueuvers and accellerated stalls. I put the RV-9A in a stall and just held it there for a really long time. Steering with the rudder versus aileron was good practice. The AOA warning tone beeping constantly for about 10 minutes. It was really fun and gave me a lot of confidence at the edges of the envelope where I rarely venture. Best BFR ever!
CJ