According to the reports of bystanders the pilot "buzzed his friend's house while talking to him on a cell phone [and] then tried to do a barrel roll, lost control, and crashed."

http://www.nbc11.com/news/14953018/detail.html

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Ci ... 865-1.html

Guess the chute won't save you when doing low level aerobatics. It is sad to see this type of accident with a factory demo pilot behind the stick.

All I can say is that there's 1 less SuperPilot out there to kill future innocent passengers. To be fair, he was alone,maybe he would have flown more responsibly with people aboard. Condolences to his family.

I have a good friend from Reno who occasionally goes out flying with a friend of his who is a CFI. He tells me stories of them flying high speed super low Red Bull Airrace style, and then doing low altitude aerobatics in some 4-place Beech. I cringe and laugh uncomfortably.

1SeventyZ wrote:I have a good friend from Reno who occasionally goes out flying with a friend of his who is a CFI. He tells me stories of them flying high speed super low Red Bull Airrace style, and then doing low altitude aerobatics in some 4-place Beech. I cringe and laugh uncomfortably.

Ug! We will read about that someday, unfortunatly. Altitude is insurance. I've done a bit of acro, and the hard deck was 3000 agl. Manuvers started at 4000 agl.

See ya, Bub