I gather that they are yes. Of course, real mean don't need
full-coverage anti-g suits and pressure breathing :>).
I too saw some variations in performance at the centrifuge at
Holloman, New Mexico (I think that's where I was, it's a large nation
;-)). One young F18 pilot did not make it past 8g and was seriously
tired after 3 sets of runs before lunch. An "old" (over 40, I was 34
then) Commander USN, also F18s did his runs with barely a twitch. We
watched the video when we wanted and I think that it was a problem
with technique and nervousness; the young chap clearly had the right
physique for resisting g, but I wonder if he was merely a bit too
worried about it all to use the correct "anti-g straining manoeuvre".
Chris
At 18:36 -0700 23/01/03, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
I recall seeing a television program(me) that followed a couple of
pilots through USAF flight school. Maybe this was before better
g-suits were available, but the point of the show was that they were
having problems with spending substantial time and money training
pilots, only to have them fail the 9g test at the end. They were
trying to determine if a person's ability to withstand g forces
prior to training was at all correlated with their ability after
training. One of the two pilots was male, the other female. The
male pilot looked like he was going to burst several major blood
vessels in his face and neck during the 9g centrifuge test and
GLOCed somewhere before 7g. The female made it to 9g, all while
looking completely relaxed :)
Are the new suits good enough that a person's innate ability to
withstand g forces is no longer so important?
Mark (who's only ever experienced periods of 2g, but got to walk
around during them and they were separated by much more fun periods
of 0g :)
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