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Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:06 am
by Atrosa
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.
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:23 am
by Atrosa
BTW N142AL is an Arion Lightning. The Vne is 180 knots.
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:30 am
by Atrosa
The rest of the data:
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:22 am
by foresterpoole
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...
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:37 am
by 3Dreaming
I find the numbers suspect as well.
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:00 am
by FastEddieB
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’
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:47 am
by FastEddieB
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:
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 1:00 pm
by Atrosa
I love that picture.
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:23 pm
by Scooper
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.
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 9:06 am
by N142AL
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
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:36 am
by Scooper
Welcome, Paul. Nice first post!
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 2:36 pm
by drseti
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.
Re: Yikes talk about Gs
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 7:49 am
by MrMorden
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.
