The parachute didn't solve their wake turbulence problems on final.N162AM passed a few hundred feet below the track of that A320
I have been upside down on final thousands of times before, because I am a BAD PERSON™.
This is why you take upset training. The aircraft is recoverable, given adequate flight training.
TC says I'm not allowed to renew my class one aerobatic instructor rating, but ...
If you find yourself rolling through knife edge (90 degrees of bank) on final, I would
not fight it. Full aileron with the roll. Top rudder at knife edge to hold the nose up,
full forward elevator through inverted to hold the nose up, then the other (top) rudder
through the other knife edge to hold the nose up, then after you are level, gentle pitch
up (not enough to stall) and full power to keep the nose up.
Again, after a lifetime of flying with a perfect safety record, TC thinks I'm qualified but
not eligible to teach aerobatics, but if you get upside down on final, do everything you
can to keep the nose up, which helps you maintain altitude.
For God's sake, when you're upside down, don't pull like a four bar. And think about all
the money people are saving on cheap flight instruction.
When I was a flight instructor, I used to say that I could teach anyone to roll anything
in 90 seconds. It's really not that hard.
It's not that people don't have 90 seconds. They just don't give a shit. Like Alec
Baldwin. in 30 seconds I could teach him enough about gun safety so he could
stop killing people, but it's just not important to him. Like a flight student, his
time is important.
