How High?

[EDUC8-or]

Re: So how low then?

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Since the "how high" option has already been discussed, then how low has anyone flown, other than takeoff/landing/pattern ops?

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About 10 feet over the shoreline. It was a nice summer day during spring break and the scenery was quite nice!

I was in one of these:

 

[davetheflyer]

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Sorry, R2F. I had a feeling that I should have searched that topic.

I once flew from CRG to AHN below 1000 AGL. With much of the trip along the coast, it was very scenic and fun.

 

[IPad (10)]

Re: So how low then?

50 feet of the shore line in a Bell 206L

 

[MikeD]

Re: So how low then?

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Sorry, R2F. I had a feeling that I should have searched that topic.

I once flew from CRG to AHN below 1000 AGL. With much of the trip along the coast, it was very scenic and fun.



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No big thing, that's why I figured I'd try and swap new life into the thread....

 

[IrishSheepdog]

Re: So how low then?

About 3 yards off some corn fields in a Helicopter.

Edited: meant yards, not feet

 

[Ophir]

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10ft just over the Black Rock desert.

 

[C650CPT]

Re: So how low then?

On the low side of things ...

Nap of Earth, ie: skids in the dirt, rotor in the trees, Day and Night under NVG's. Night unaided = 500' AGL

I didn't need the seat belt / shoulder harness because the suction from the pucker factor kept me in my seat.

 

[EatSleepFly]

Re: So how low then?

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Since the "how high" option has already been discussed, then how low has anyone flown, other than takeoff/landing/pattern ops?


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I'm looking forward to hearing your answer MikeD!

Me personally...probably 800 ft. AGL or so doing ground ref. stuff.

 

[ERAU_Intern]

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Low enough that I am reluctant to answer! As for how high? FL270 in a Cessna 340A piston twin!!

 

[sbe]

Re: So how low then?

how high?
FL330 in a Citation (riding right seat)
10,000 in a PA28-181

low?
about 30' agl following a lake shoreline in a J-3 on floats, with the door down, beautiful day....

Sarah

 

[MikeD]

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I'm looking forward to hearing your answer MikeD!

Me personally...probably 800 ft. AGL or so doing ground ref. stuff.

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250 AGL, 330 KIAS Day.

1000 AGL, 330 KIAS Night/NVG.

 

[MC130FE]

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250 AGL/ 280KCAS/ IMC in 13,000FT Mountains
100 AGL NVG

 

[jdflight]

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20 feet off a lake, 200 over farmland, chasing cows. Almost hit by a cropduster. Haven't done it since.

 

[ScorpionStinger]

Re: So how low then?

FL230 in the rightseat of a P-3c orion.
FL240 on the floor of a P-3c in a sleeping bag
( cuz it was Cold

) Yet it was the best flight I'd ever been on cuz we were comming home !!!

 

[ScorpionStinger]

Re: So how low then?

50ft agl.. off some helo last sunday during a Airshow in Lewiston Airport(LEW) in Maine.. $20.00 for a 5min flight Awsome !!!

P.s In you haven't been on a helo flight yet. you better get on one ASAP.

 

[eodfe]

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15,500 without oxygen (but then I jumped out, and was at a more breathable altitude after a few seconds...

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Jumped from a King Air at 24000 feet, we had O2 on the way up, but off O2 for the jump. Feefall was so fast hypoxia wasn't a factor.

 

[EatSleepFly]

Ah...I have yet to do a high altitude jump. I've done the balloon, and jumped out of 208's, Twin Otters, Pilatus Porters, and a Shorts SkyVan...but never above 15.5k. One of these times I guess...Actually, I'm not even current at the moment- I havent had a weekend off in awhile.

You still jump?

 

[eodfe]

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You still jump?

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Not as much as I would like too. I get about six jumps every three months. Last time I jumped was at the lost prarie boogie in Kallispell, MT. Flying has defenitly took a front seat to skydiving. The 24K jump was a couple of years ago at the World freefall convention in Quincy, it was out of Mike Mullin's super King Air.

 

[EatSleepFly]

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The 24K jump was a couple of years ago at the World freefall convention in Quincy, it was out of Mike Mullin's super King Air.

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Man, EVERYBODY who's anybody has jumped out of that thing it seems like.

 

[xdashdriver]

As pilot:

FL410 Citation Bravo
FL250 Cessna 414
14,000 C172

As passenger:

FL550+ Concorde

Ray