Pilot of extra 300 reported difficulty completing a photographic mission.

Attributes
ACN	1651691
Time
Date	201905
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Extra 200/300 Series
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	VFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Powerplant Fuel System
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 65 Flight Crew Total 450 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural FAR Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue
Miss Distance	Horizontal 500 Vertical 1000

Narrative:

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.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Pilot of Extra 300 reported difficulty completing a photographic mission.

Narrative: 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.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.