No. No more than I would walk you through building a bomb on an email newsgroup. I can recommend some books at http://shop.eaa.org/html/01_iac_books.html?cart_id=. I read "Skydancing:Aerobatic Flight Techniques" and it is very good. My instructor recommended "Fly For Fun". I thumbed through it at Oshkosh last year and it looked good, but I didn't have room in the Stang to take it come with me. I am not recommending the books to teach yourself aerobatics. I am recommending them so you can learn more about the mechanics of flight out of the normal attitudes. There are professional aerobatic instructors that can teach you the basics for a few hundred well spent dollars.
When I went up with an instructor in a Pitts I told him that I was ready to advance to more advanced maneuvers in the Stang than the rolls I had been doing and I wanted him to mainly show me what can go wrong when you botch a maneuver and how you can get out of it. The Stang spins like a top on steroids and it picks up speed with the nose down at an unbelievable rate and I knew that I needed some more training before I looped it even though I had done dozens of loops in a 152. When you start a loop without enough speed or don't pull enough Gs in the pullup and you stall and spin while inverted at the top of the loop it has a tendency to scare you straight. Ever tried to figure out what direction you are spinning when you are inverted? Ever done a split S with too much starting speed and been pointed straight down with the airspeed indicator at red line? Those are the times you are thankfull that there is an instructor behind you. Brian Kraut Engineering Alternatives, Inc. www.engalt.com -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On Behalf Of Kenneth Wiltrout Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 12:51 PM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> rolls Brian could you walk us through the entire rolling process, ie entry speed,left or right roll, ( VW ) etc.------------Thanks. Ken Wiltrout Kutztown, Pa. Anyone hear how Joe Horton made out today??? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kraut" <brian.kr...@engalt.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 12:39 AM Subject: RE: KR> rolls > Sounds like you are doing the exact same wrong thing on rolls that I was > doing at first until I went up with an aerobatics instructor in his Pitts > and he corrected me. You start the roll by pitching up so that when you > are > done your nose is not pitched down. After you get the nose up to the > attitude you want you have to consciously get the stick forward to the > neutral position before you start the roll and then keep it there. Pause > a > half a second there if you need to. The tendency is after you pull back > to > get it in the nose up attitude to keep a little back pressure on it. That > gives you something more like a badly executed barrel roll, higher Gs than > you should pull in a roll (should not be much more than 1), and a tendency > to come out nose down with a loss of altitude. > > _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
