I'd suggest that the key point
being made here is not to be careful when you are an
experienced
airshow pilot, but to be careful when
you are first starting some aerobatics.

There is an amazing (beginning)
aerobatics school 'Amelia Reid Aviation'
nearby here in the San Francisco bay area.

I got a chance to fly with Amelia Reid before she passed
away. The basic training was fun, very cheap, and
we always wore chutes and flew
an aerobatic plane.

I think it is great to do aerobatics.
Just look around a little and find a
properly rated plane on your budget.
They are out there. Better yet, there
are plenty of aerobatic gliders
and some (maybe not a lot) aerobatic
glider instructors. The NCSA at
Byron nearby has low rates and
aerobatic qualified CFIs, for example.

I suspect cost is a little bit of
an issue for you. Trust me, you can
find very reasonable rates AND
appropriate equipment if you
look around a little bit.

At 20:00 28 April 2005, Jsmith wrote:
Dude, just because the maneuver isn't approved in the
aircraft manual
doesn't me it isn't safe to do. The limiting factor
is the skill of the
pilot. Stay within the G-limits, airspeed limits, the
airplane doesn't
know what it's doing.
Robert A 'Bob' Hoover was a military and civilian pilot
that did things
with airplanes others said couldn't be done. He did
them nonetheless,
repeatedly, in the same aircraft.

B S D Chapman wrote:
There's a subtle difference between adventurous and
pioneering, and
adventourous and reckless. What really confuses me
is that you openly
admit, nay brag, about the fact you did it in a non-aerobatic
aircraft.


Mark J. Boyd