Sky Combat Ace Experience

The Top Gun experience was  an interactive adventure where I finally had the possibility to fly a plane like Extra 330!  The mission profile is a full acrobatic display and a dynamic low level profile through the beautiful mountains East of San Diego in a simulated bomb run on a ground target  on a simulated SA-5 missile site. The experience was about 3 hours, from the brief to debrefieng.

MISSION PROFILE:

• Fighter Pilot Briefing
• Full Aerobatic Profile
• Pull up to 8x the Force of Gravity
• Loops, Rolls, Stalls
• Tail Slides
• Spins (Upright or Inverted)
• Torque Rolls & Snap Rolls
• Tumble or Lomcevak
• High G Turn (optional)
• Dynamic Low Level Bombing Run

With my IP

The founder of Sky Combat Ace is Richard “Tex” Coe, I met him at Gillspie Airport to fly the Extra 330LC as part of Top gun Sky Combat Experience. He started flying when he was 16 years old and his passion for aviation eventually led him to join the Air Force after graduating college to pursue a career as fighter pilot. 

While stationed overseas at Aviano Air Base in Italy, one of his favorite missions was to take people up for “incentive rides” which basically meant he got to take up non-pilots and showcase what the F-16 Viper could do. After “Tex” (his nickname) left the Air Force, in early 2011, he assembled the team in Las Vegas with just two Extra 330LC aircraft, the world’s most advanced FAA certified aerobatic airplane. Certified to +/-10 G’s (it can pull more G’s than an F-16). In 2015, Sky Combat Ace opened up it’s 2nd location in San Diego, California, where I call to organize my experience.

My coffee break!

After the experience there is video, already edited based on your choice, about your flight. Normaly ready in few hours or the day after. SCA normally gives you a small gift as well in memory of your flight. 

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