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Originally Posted by YouNeverKnow
There is a red and white biplane that flies over our village (back and forth) quite frequently and sometimes for hours. Today he was very low doing loops and stunts with white smoke coming out the back. He started around 9am this morning and is still going at it at 2:00pm with short breaks in between. I can't believe that the FAA would allow this over such a densely populated area. If something should go wrong he could cause multiple casualties on the ground. Seems like a tragedy waiting to happen!  |
The red biplane is mine. I fly over my neighborhood enroute to my aerobatic practice area 10 miles NE of The Villages while the engine warms up. I’m usually overhead for 2-3 minutes, my total flight time is normally 25-35 minutes from take off to landing. I don’t fly “back and forth over The Villages for hours”….how boring would that be!!
For example, on Oct 22 the post said I “started at 9:00….. still at it at 2:00”, was actually two flights, one in the morning that lasted 32 min and 54 seconds, of which 4 min and 40 seconds was over The Villages where I was trying to skywrite a “heart” for my wife. The second flight (it was such a beautiful day I just had to go again) lasted 29 min and 32 seconds of which 4 min and 9 seconds was over The Villages. So, not 5 hours overhead, but only two periods of 4 minutes each.
I video every flight I take with a GoPro camera mounted on the airplane and I archive the videos. My altimeter is visible in the video, and it’s easy to see that I’m always above 1000 feet and NEVER do aerobatics over The Villages. None…ever….no loops, no inverted flight. I always comply with FAA regulations. Easy to see on the videos. Also easy to see are the aerobatics I do over my practice area, near the national forest to the northeast….barrel rolls, aileron rolls, slow rolls, 4-point rolls, snap rolls, loops, loops with a roll on top, hammerheads, hammerheads with vertical rolls, immelmans, split S’s, Cuban 8’s and a few other fun things.
I do apologize to anyone whose peace I may have disturbed, Perhaps I’ll do most of my warm up time somewhere else, I know the airplane is noisy. However, I can’t let the exaggerations and accusations go unanswered….but I’m not entering into an online debate.