Dimme wrote:
That’s a beautiful picture!
Thanks! One must be very careful where you do this. You don’t want to find a surprise just below the top of the mist. I’d wanted to do that for a while, but location is critical. I know that property as well as my own, and knew that I would not hit anything buried in the mist.
I also satisfy myself hitting my own turbulence at the bottom of a loop.
About 15 years ago I was working with a colleague developing a system on a Cessna 207 which was used to collect air samples for air chemistry. A periscope tube stuck well up above the roof of the plane, and a vacuum pump pulled air in, and through the specrometer. My instructions were to fly a series of lines, not overflying a previous line. After a few hours, I got tired, and turned right instead of left. After a half mile down the line, the scientist asked me if I’d turned the wrong way? “Yup, I did, but how’d you know?”. “Because I’m picking up our exhaust from the last line, in the air we’re sampling!”. My errant flying was much more precise than I had expected!
Thanks for sharing, cool story. An a 207, sigh!
There is a theory that some of the Moose stalls that affect the Super Cub were due to repeated flying through their own wake, not due to the cross control slow turn theory.
