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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 2344495" data-attributes="member: 424">Some more that I have done."Went all the way" with a pilot - to 9 'G's that is.  I was doing my air orientation for my forward air controller course.  The pilots took fiendish pleasure in ensuring us ground pounders had a 'fun' time.  All my classmates came out of the CF-18 either covered in puke or severely wobbly and looking very pale.   I, on the other hand, didn't mind the flight - a fact that pissed off the pilot.  So, he keep upping the severity of the flight maneuvers trying to get me to puke or scream like a scared little girl (don't laugh....some of my class mates admitted they screamed like a scared little girl).  Thank god for G-suits. I got taken to 9 Gs and to 3 negative Gs (so the pilot claims).  An experience that was.....well, most unpleasant and don't recommend for anyone.  I was a little wobbly getting out of the cockpit but the pilots were most impressed that a non-pilot held up so well.  They told me that us 'grunt' types very rarely handle anything above 4 Gs and -1 negative G.  They gave me a certificate to celebrate the achievement.  Bastards....I've been bombed, shelled by artillery, shelled by mortars, shot at by German Leopard tanks and by small arms fire - all of it 'friendly' fire and all real ammunition.  My wife says I have more lives than a cat.I also tripped a landmine in Bosnia in '94 and thanks the gods, the thing 'dudded' or I would not be around to post this.</blockquote>

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