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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Mike,
The way the plane was flown in the videos is on the limit or beyond. Not many people, pilots included, want to do this with an airplane to really see what it can do, then hope they can get it back in hand and recover. That said, they do this to find out what the limit is, then back it down just a bit for safety.
A lot of it is a "seat of the pants" thing and you either have it or you do not but the rest is just good judgement and training. Todays airplanes are so forgiving in many areas that they will let the crew do a lot that could not have been done years ago. Flight test pilots are still killed from time to time testing the envelope, so its not something to take lightly.
We do unusual attitudes (upside down) and all sorts of emergencies in the simulator, but extreme crosswind landings is not the norm. They hope you will find a runway situated more into the wind I guess!
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