It's an acronym we like to drop.
It's also a real thing that occasionally rears it's head and breaks airplanes.
I have experienced the ground version on my bicycle, my Toyota station wagon, and experienced it more than once in a 172.
I have seen it happen you youtube to tail draggers.
I seem to recall the occasional Lear Jet crash, we have the DC-10 at Narita, and we have the recent Russian crash.
My questions are pretty basic:
Are there truly nasty airplanes that if you get behind, a person is likely to experience a PIO?
Is the secret "only" to stay ahead of the airplane?
OR
Are there some good universal rules to "almost always" nip a PIO in the bud.
Is a PIO incident a reflection of a crappy pilot or crappy performance?
Also, I'm more interested in PITCH oscillations than tail-dragger oscillations.
And, I'm looking for broad information as opposed to a statement that it would not happen to you.
Footnote: There was a theory that the FedEx-Narita pilots were tricked by a cockpit height visual cue that they were on the ground, but nose-wheel up- when in fact the rear of the plane was rising with a simultaneous nose over to a hard landing...(I guess they SHOULD have checked the AI, but hey, it was a busy landing with tired folks and first class wind).
Thanks.
It's also a real thing that occasionally rears it's head and breaks airplanes.
I have experienced the ground version on my bicycle, my Toyota station wagon, and experienced it more than once in a 172.
I have seen it happen you youtube to tail draggers.
I seem to recall the occasional Lear Jet crash, we have the DC-10 at Narita, and we have the recent Russian crash.
My questions are pretty basic:
Are there truly nasty airplanes that if you get behind, a person is likely to experience a PIO?
Is the secret "only" to stay ahead of the airplane?
OR
Are there some good universal rules to "almost always" nip a PIO in the bud.
Is a PIO incident a reflection of a crappy pilot or crappy performance?
Also, I'm more interested in PITCH oscillations than tail-dragger oscillations.
And, I'm looking for broad information as opposed to a statement that it would not happen to you.
Footnote: There was a theory that the FedEx-Narita pilots were tricked by a cockpit height visual cue that they were on the ground, but nose-wheel up- when in fact the rear of the plane was rising with a simultaneous nose over to a hard landing...(I guess they SHOULD have checked the AI, but hey, it was a busy landing with tired folks and first class wind).
Thanks.
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