Posted on 01/05/2002 2:13:06 PM PST by MindBender26
Part of article from St. Pete Times after Sept 11.
"Robert C. Cooper, president of National Aviation Flight School and Aviation Rentals, stressed that the extra security cannot be done at the expense of those of Middle Eastern descent.
"I don't want to get involved in profiling," he said. "I have faith in my government. I have to work on the belief that my government has basis to allow them into the country and show them proper respect." end of article.
Cooper is head of National Aviation Holdings that owned A/C. Many Florida flight schools train Arab students. Wonder if comment was made so as not to p. off students. Wonder if Arab pilot flew A/C into building. THIS IS FR EXCLUSIVE!!!
There's a huge surprise.
No--adverse yaw is what you get when you roll into or out of a turn, from the difference in induced drag caused by the displaced ailerons. As far as I know, the left-turning tendency you encounter when you're at low airspeed, high AOA, and high power is called simply that: the "left-turning tendency." It's made up of a whole bunch of contributing factors, but basically you ignore them and shove the right rudder in until the ball centers.
I don't think the crash was purposeful at all. The witness I saw said the plane was porpoising significantly before it crashed. It looks to me like a stupid 15-year-old flight student had preflighted his airplane, as instructed, and was waiting for his instructor to come out and check up on him, when he got bored and decided to take the plane up himself.
Perhaps he thought he was ready for his first solo and his instructor had been stubbornly refusing to endorse him for it, so he figured he'd show him a thing or two.
Why did he fly toward the city? Two reasons: first, he probably knew the area and could follow familiar roads on the ground; second, it was nice and big and he could see it. Why did he crash? Because suddenly he noticed the Coast Guard helicopter behind him and tried to keep an eye on it. He ended up trying to do too many things at once, got behind the airplane, and wound up caught in a series of phugoid oscillations (the same thing that happens to a paper airplane with too much nose-up trim when you let it go from a large height).
Phugoid oscillations are not difficult to recover from when you've got your wits about you, but he didn't (he'd probably never experienced them before, because his instructor had made sure he had never before put in a control displacement large and sudden enough to get them started), and before he could get the plane under control a building got in his way. If he was trying to climb over the building without enough engine power, the phugoids would just have gotten bigger and more uncontrollable.
I don't think there's anything international or religious here: just another idiot teenager who thinks he's invincible and omniscient finding out (briefly) that he's not.
Wouldn't be surprised that he's a spoiled little rich kid whose parents paid for his flying lessons to get him off their backs.
. . .could be, but if he did not know what he was doing, why would he steal a plane; if he did not know how to land, why did he go up?
Actually, I heard a student pilot was on board; have they confirmed he was alone?
Inclined to think no news about name released yet of 'involved' could well indicate ME influence somewhere on board. . .
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