Netters;
This discussion reminds me of when I was a "nugget", flying T-28s out of
Whiting Field, Florida in 1978. Those of us that had survived Fam 1-15 were
sent out to solo the mighty Trojan in order to practice our new-found piloting
skills. Someone in the group was talking about doing negative G pushovers and
watching a pencil float in mid-air. One of our buddies went out to try it the
next day when he encountered a control problem. It seems he hadn't secured the
parachute in the rear cockpit, as emphasized in the NATOPS Manual. He declared
an emergency and landed at an outlying field. After this guy landed, the duty
officer climbed up on the wing and saw that the unsecured parachute was leaning
on the stick in the rear cockpit. "You're in a heap of trouble, enswine!" He
growled. Back at Whiting, he found himself doing a carpet dance in front of
the squadron safety officer. He got washed out of advanced training about 6
months later.
So let this be a lesson to all KR drivers. Unplanned manuevers can lead
to a bad ending.
