Low Flying
There are very few cases where low flying can be considered anything other than dangerous. In the past couple weeks I’ve seen a handful of videos circulating around the Internet that show GA pilots (presumeably) doing things like flying under power lines or steep turns between trees mere feet off the ground. So stupid. I suspect everyone has done some low flying at one point or another, though probably not in such a foolish manner. When I got my licence in Kelowna, BC in 1992, a couple of times I flew about 100 feet above the lake since my parents lived pretty much on the lake in Okanagan Centre. At the time I can’t say I felt that flying that low was all that dangerous, but I do remember trimming the plane out so that if I let go of the yoke that the plane would climb. And that way, I had to forcibly hold the plane level and there was less possibility of accidently changing the plane into a dive site.
That said, in the hands of a skilled pilot the Supermarine Spitfire [caution: contains a little profanity] can be fun at low altitude. If you can’t view the video (or the link is broken), e-mail me as I have a copy.
Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:21 Posted in Flying
