Originally posted by owequitit
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Depending on level of practice and decency, I didn't really have to start the L1 maneuver until about 4.5-5G's usually. At that point though, it was a fairly quick onset. Oddly, I didn't usually have too many issues compared to my peers (despite being well above average in height). Usually tall people are the first to go due to the greater distance between the heart and brain, I must have a smaller than average brain! 
. But yes, at about 5G's I was definitely starting to have to work on it. Did you ever get the privilege of reaching full G-LOC in primary? We always started with a G-maneuver to introduce the upset students to the progression of their physiological symptoms.
The other thing that may have been a factor as well was that we didn't have the performance to maintain that many G's for more than a few seconds, unlike an F-16 or unlimited aerobatic plane that has a lot more power. Especially since we were naturally aspirated and our 180HP Super Decathlon was probably lucky to be making 100HP up there a lot of days! I would typically start maneuvers at about 10,300 which gave us a little over 5,000 feet to play with in case something went horribly wrong.
Damn. Now I am having withdrawals!
. But yes, at about 5G's I was definitely starting to have to work on it. Did you ever get the privilege of reaching full G-LOC in primary? We always started with a G-maneuver to introduce the upset students to the progression of their physiological symptoms.The other thing that may have been a factor as well was that we didn't have the performance to maintain that many G's for more than a few seconds, unlike an F-16 or unlimited aerobatic plane that has a lot more power. Especially since we were naturally aspirated and our 180HP Super Decathlon was probably lucky to be making 100HP up there a lot of days! I would typically start maneuvers at about 10,300 which gave us a little over 5,000 feet to play with in case something went horribly wrong.
Damn. Now I am having withdrawals!
But yeah we would maintain a solid 3-4 Gs for a while when doing a formation maneuver called extended trail (basically lead and lag pursuit like simulated dog fighting). This was all in the T-6A btw.
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