FLIGHT TRAINING INSTRUCTION T-45 WEAPONS/STRIKE - Cnatra

CHAPTER FOUR T-45 WEAPONS/STRIKE
G Limitations
4-10 PREFLIGHT PREPARATION
Figure 4-7 External Stores Limitations
Overstresses. With limited assets available and with limited human resources on the line and in
the shop, we need to preserve those assets to the best of our ability. If you fly a good pattern, the
most amount of g you should pull at any one time should be between 4.2 to 4.8 g’s. You should
“target” 4.0 g’s on the recovery, just as in performing a loop in FAMs. This is the first time you
are pointing your nose at the ground, hurling yourself towards earth at 450 KTAS and 3000’.
You need to know the g limits of the aircraft.
Realize, when you are traveling at this airspeed, mostly all of the overstresses derive from quick
application of back stick or “snatching” on the g. Be SMOOOOOOOOTH with your pulls.
The g limits in the T-45C are broken down into two maneuvering envelopes, symmetrical (wings
level) and unsymmetrical (rolling pull).
Symmetrical Maneuvering
The limits for the symmetrical maneuvering are +6.5 and -3.0 below 5,000’ MSL, which is the
regime we spend all of our time pulling our g’s.