Experience a top-notch jet-flight with a top gun pilot in the nicest L-39C 'Albatross' in the world! Speed across the Mojave Desert and experience the vivid colors of the desert ranges!
Fly with the American aerobatics pilot and world record holder and his jet! You have always dreamed once to be thundering how Tom Cruise in ' Top Gun' above the desert? You want to experience the unique view over mountains, while your pilot admits you in the secrets of the flight aerobatics?
Then you are in good hands by us. Your adventure begins half an hour distance of the international airport 'LAX' from Los Angeles. You are received by your pilot personally who admits you first of all in the theoretical skills of the aviation and makes you familiar naturally with all security precautions, which it is a matter to follow. You experience a theoretical training to the use of the catapult seat and to the flight behavior. Your pilot will explain you 'your' machine in all details, before you put on your flight overall and take a seat on the back seat inside the L-39.
Then it goes!
Slowly, your pilot rolls the L-39 on the start road. You can listen in to your favorite music, and can come to an agreement, nevertheless, still with your pilot. Then full power is given, the machine races above the start road, and within seconds you are in the air. In a precipitous curve your pilot hits in the direction of Mojave desert, and your flight begins.
Not that you think, you would be on a travel flight altitude like normal traffic airplanes - your are not right! Your maximum flight altitude will be approx. 2 meters about the wild ground if you race with just 840 km/h above the desert. If you throw the look to the back, you will see that there is a sufficient long dust flag behind the 'L-39C Albatros '. There follow some deep flight manoeuvres, where you fly through deep gulches and mountain slopes and the g forces will tug in you. And no fear: Before your flight you have come to an agreement with your pilot, and you have said to him what you are confident and what not!
Afterwards you take course on mountains, and you fly manoeuvre, close about the tree treetops away. You can see how the tree treetops move, after the 'L-39C Albatros ' was about them flown away.
Then your steep path flight begins properly: Dave Riggs tears the machine precipitously upwards, you are pressed in the seat. Now according to speed , between 4 and 7g's can press on you. With 6000 feet (2,000 meters) per minute you are after this manoeuvre on a flight altitude of 27,000 feet (9,000 meters). And with thus, not yet enough: You receive the possibility to take over the tax bat the 'L-39C Albatros ' independently. In constant radio contact with your pilot you can feel the strength of the turbine. You will experience what indicates to fly a right jet airplane, - you are not in the home sitting room and fly with a flight simulator!
Then follows the absolute flight acrobatics. Loopings, Immelmann's, 360 degrees rolls
and parables which you allow to become weightless. After these manoeuvres you descend again, and if the weather is fine, you fly in the direction of harbour of Los Angeles which you have not still seen from this perspective absolutely. But with thus, its not enough: The world-famous landmark of Hollywood waits for you, and you will fly over, before your landing on the home airport.
After 55 - 50 minutes your flight adventure is to an end, and you are definetely more richly around the experience of your life! After this flight which ends with a small bar-drink with the team, you will recieve your personal flight document and your personal flight video, and you will be say: now I know what signifies 'Top Gun' really!
Your pilots:
Dave Riggs:
Dave Riggs is an extremely experienced pilot who flies for more than 20 years everything what can move in the air: Light airplanes, propeller airplanes, helicopters and military fight jets. He can call many honorings and prices his own, among the rest, he holds 3 world records NAA/FAI in speed distance flights. If he floats not exactly over the Hollywood boulevard with a jet ranger, or with his L-39 'L-39C Albatros Special' is thundering in the slightest flight altitudes about the surface of the Mojawe desert, he maintains a successful and prize-excellent film marketing agency.
Skip Holm holds the world record with 1,000-hour flight time during fight manoeuvres and belongs to the best known racing pilots of the world, who present his tricks on flight shows worldwide. He also holds many records in the racing flight, e.g., contain one of the records a flight with a propeller powered airplane (by the way noted, he carried out this flight in a flight altitude of 50 feet about the ground). He is an asked stunt pilot and also carried out in the movie " The Right Stuff "- which material from him , a movie after a world-famous book about the first Americans in space by Tom Wolfe, all real flight admissions. In accordance with Colonel Skip Holm flies actually, everything what owns wing. His complete time which he himself spent flying in the sky is to be attached with more than 14,000 hours.
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