Yikes talk about Gs

Atrosa · Post by **Atrosa** » Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:06 am

At what point do your wings get ripped off the aircraft? I saw N142AL on barnstormers and did a flight aware lookup. At one point it was doing nearly 360 mph. Uhmmm i think i will stay away from this one.

Atrosa · Post by **Atrosa** » Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:23 am

BTW N142AL is an Arion Lightning. The Vne is 180 knots.

Atrosa · Post by **Atrosa** » Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:30 am

The rest of the data:

foresterpoole · Post by **foresterpoole** » Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:22 am

That can't be right... Even in a dive. I would think that from less than 2500 feet there would be no time to even pull out...

3Dreaming · Post by **3Dreaming** » Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:37 am

I find the numbers suspect as well.

FastEddieB · Post by **FastEddieB** » Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:00 am

I suspect glitches in the position reporting causing erroneous calculations and output.

I had a Garmin navigator for my motorcycles. One time I went to the summary page and found my max speed was over 200 mph*. No doubt a similar error led to that as well.

*Despite my screen name, I’m not really that fast’

FastEddieB · Post by **FastEddieB** » Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:47 am

Then again, I remember a Flightaware track once showing a Luscombe flying at Mach 1. Everyone was skeptical, but it turned out to be legitimate:

Atrosa · Post by **Atrosa** » Thu Dec 05, 2019 1:00 pm

I love that picture.

Scooper · Post by **Scooper** » Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:23 pm

If you look at the Flightaware Flight Track Log for N142AL on 25 November from KGEU to KGEU, at 13:43:50 PST (times are shown in my time zone), shows a speed of 290 knots, but it is preceded by a note that says "Gap in available data." All the other speeds on that flight look reasonable, but that's clearly an outlier.

Garbage in, garbage out.

N142AL · Post by **N142AL** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:06 am

Uhhh Guys,

That’s my plane you are breaking balls about.

I think it should be obvious that the data you are referring to are touch and go’s, and despite the awesomeness of its performance it should be equally obvious that those are spurious spikes in the data set.

She is a beautiful aircraft to fly...

Paul
N142AL

Scooper · Post by **Scooper** » Wed May 27, 2020 11:36 am

Welcome, Paul. Nice first post!

drseti · Post by **drseti** » Wed May 27, 2020 2:36 pm

FastEddieB wrote: *Despite my screen name, I’m not really that fast’

And despite your reputation, Eddie, we all know you're really half-fast.

MrMorden · Post by **MrMorden** » Thu May 28, 2020 7:49 am

Atrosa wrote:At what point do your wings get ripped off the aircraft? I saw N142AL on barnstormers and did a flight aware lookup. At one point it was doing nearly 360 mph. Uhmmm i think i will stay away from this one.

Your wings won't get ripped off. Your tail will. It's much weaker than the wings.

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