Extra 200/300 Series
Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 65; Flight Crew Total 450; Flight Crew Type 200
Other / Unknown; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft; Human Factors
Trying to photograph skydivers by request and could not get the plane to slow to the speed of the jump plane without an extreme AOA. The problem was the extreme AOA was starving fuel when the tanks were below 50%. On one occasion the engine failed and I had to dive to regain power and then climb into almost a loop to then slow the plane and to regain altitude. The plane can handle the G loads as it was designed to do so; however; this portion of the flight was over the small urban area east of the field.
Pilot of Extra 300 reported difficulty completing a photographic mission.