Week 18 - May 9 to 15

This week, we had a 11 hours class on stall, departure and spin testing. On the flying side, nothing much new, except that we got the first of the propulsion demo : the pilots get to fly the F-16, while the FTEs go to the control room. not as much fun, but necessary ! Otherwise, more C12 practice check-rides, HU16 check-rides, fighter check-rides, the first of the C12 longitudinal stability demo, more learjet VSS (long stat is over, lat-dir also, and a few FTEs got the specific FTE ride and flew in the right seat (instead of staying in the back). The VSS rides are very interesting since we can evaluate handling qualities of many different types of aricraft in one flight, but not very enjoyable from a back-seater point of view : barf bags mandatory ! Even some of the pilots admitted that they had managed to make themselves sick, while being at the controls !!
Next week, we will have many different small classes (failure testing, some FTT briefs, ...) and many different flights (C12, VSS, LCO, proplusion demo, ....). More on that next sunday !