Flying Lately with pains from movements , you appreciate how distracting THINGS can be , and how when you arnt , your Not Distracted .
Approximately , we're 20 Ft / Sec . looking at the blonde , while in the wingover , can throw the timing out .
BUT another WAY of looking at it , is Each Foot ( No Distance ) is 1 / 20 th of a sec , whereby you see YOU need to be FOCUSED .
A good Combat Wing'll get ya focused real quick .
Now Where were we .
Primary Focus / attention - ON the AIRCRAFT . Practising the mental state like a quick draw , IMAGINE Your Doing It . Or Neutral State ( of mind , If I THROW into the waste paper bin , Do It . Thinking About it I Cant )
THEREFORE all peripheral inputs ( visual / Attenention ELSEWHERE must be eliminated ( From the mind & Vision - I guess ) as theyre impediments or obstacles to having your WHOLE FOCUS on the area of flight .
Just like riding a cone slow ride test on a M'Cycle in a carpark . There the vision is on AHEAD ( Itd be on the Flightpath in our case ) and physically the shouldes & fingertips . pretty much the same physically then .
SO , the Easy Way - say theres a light pole ( or throw a 5 ft stick in the turf . Whistle Along and hit UP . Not the Vertical & the Stick , lateral deviation . hit it a few , miss it a few , laps .
Dial in your distance / cross eyed - FOCUS , so your reflex times get matched to the plane vertical At , or within a foot or two , of the stick . Id Just Nose Down 7 around again after shes run straight vertical steady .
Is A Thread About Groovey Aeroplanes -
Nose Heavy helps , where let of in a Sq turn , itll track straight & true , on a steady hand / arm FOLLOWING the flight path ( For Same Reletive control posn . )
If the hand isnt tracking with the aeroplane , the divergance's pulling a wire & steering it off - course .
if there is a light pole , with a Light ( or BLOB ) up there clear of the ground , freehand , dogfighting around Ea Time you Track Across past it , you should be able to INTERSECT it ( Thread the Needle ) on ANY course .
So if the planes comfortable there , and your ' Zen ' focused , as we've seen it called . Stilled the Mind . All irrelevant conciousness discarded - you should consistantly be able to get a ' Intersectin ' anywhere up there
( a Fixed Referance Point ) and the flight track , to be darn close .
Comfortable There ,
Tracking at a offset to it , you should hit a 90 degree turn , where the ( flight ) line from the exit intersects it . VERY GOOD . But id do The first line say 20 Ft ' down ' from it , so your 20 ft from , at perpendicular ,
as you track across ' your spot . AS theres no neck twisting involved ' jumping ' 20 ft . Visually . Probly my focus is a 60 ft wide cone , plane distance .
BUT . ( Gee scribbling trickers the anaylisis of whats been going on , flying - lately .
IF your in a Lancaster Rear Turret , your Vision of ' Movement in the Void ' is much netter if you OFF FOCUS . With Your Head Thrown Right Back , the natural enzymes ( o.k. some bl**dy thing ) would detect the Ju88 creeping in the dark.
Thus , the STANCE . Feet a few feet apart , almost . Legs Braced . Shoulders Square to the aeroplane , your piviting your torso at the hips - SO the upper bodys ' with ' the flight path . but ,
If You Trow your head back , in the HORIZONTAL Eights , your vision encomposes most of the manouvre , with minimal upper body displacement . And you dont need to LOOK for 88s .
The turkey ( a rear gunner ) in his book , said he uses this Driving , seated so your comfortable semi iinclined ( on highways - NOT dirt Roads ) so your heads ( neck ) is comfortable aft , AS
the scenarion afore you is in your LOWER Vision , you detect far more astutely all the goings on , without dabbling about with the eyeballs . Believe it or not .
Getting BACK to the POINT .
of EXIT from the vertical Downward leg , the stance is pretty much As Described .
Bob Hunts flying models series on execution of manouvres , He Leaves the WINGOVER untill the LAST ' Chapter ' .
so , if ya can Find It , READ IT . ( ive bin thinkin of copying the series & posting it here in order ) .
Its possable , if you get your feet ahead of yourself - to havem 2 ft apart ON the intecese line , so you just swing around 180 deg ONCE during the entire manouver . As you arc across the top the second time
1/4 segment (at ) before ground , theyre FIXED agian .and your head hasnt snapped right down , level out of the turns across your lower vision , where your sights superior .
Needless to say , get all the bodly language , head movements , etcdown pat BEFORe you go out to the flight field . So theyre easy fluid , if deliberate , movements .
you tend to let your vision sit steady , shift it to thetop of the circle ahead of the plane , track across , shift it to the pull out and recovery area ,alow the plane to come down so at ' X ' feet ( say our 20 ft, or a slow turn 25 )
hit it , and it comes out of the turn tracking across into our central vision , whereby you lift a foot and swing around ahead of it again .
Sheeshe . . its 3 am , I think I wil get out on the back lawn and practise .
Basically theres a body stance for Ea Manoubre , and Bobs articals on Ea Manouvre Covered This . The Weight Placement on Ea Foot is part of it . So It IS Aerobics , after all .
The Great Peter Ustenov's
Footwork , or lack off , in slow motion , in Wingover ( head ) . Dunno if Micheal Jackson'd manadge this .
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