{"id":3031,"date":"2015-12-16T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2015-12-16T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:27:01","slug":"flying-a-fighter-jet-is-tougher-than-top-gun-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/flying-a-fighter-jet-is-tougher-than-top-gun-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying a Fighter Jet is tougher than ‘Top Gun’ suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
Usually Hollywood exagerates, when we talk about fighter pilots and Top Gun, that’s probably not the case. There is a few rather scary things of being an Air Force pilot or Navy pilot. Here is three\u00a0points that fighter pilots have to deal with:<\/p>\n
We are talking about insane G-Forces here. During a recent Edge of Space Flight<\/a> in the MiG-29, one of our customers had 9.2Gs. And he said it was pretty cumbersome\u00a0and exhausting. To make sure – he explicitely wanted to make a new record for passenger fligths in the MiG-29. So this is not at all normal. And he was also wearing G-Suits. But still, that can be painful. We wrote an other post about G-Forces<\/a>\u00a0and how they work in case you are interested. Here is one of our favorite examples of the so-called G-LOC:<\/p>\n