On Nov 18, 11:03 am, "Viperdoc" wrote:
The ones I've done are on about 60 deg upline, then left knife edge, and
then full forward stick, right aileron, and full left rudder. It'll go
around and do three tumbles, each at right angles. It usually ends in a
level attitude at right angles to the original line of flight, with the prop
howling at full RPM, and zero indicated airspeed. It's actually not violent
at all, with little g load.

When I first got the Extra, now seven years ago, I promised my wife that I
would never do airshows, and never charge anyone for a ride (not that I
would anyway). It's been a great ride and lots of fun.

Here's one I've been working on with my Extra.

Dive for middle of yellow arc speed, pull to vertical, gently put in
full right stick to start it rolling, then push the stick into right
front corner and full left rudder simultaneously, but reasonably
gently. Then watch it make a really flat, fast inverted spin while
the altimeter continues to indicate upward progress. Way fun! I'm
still playing with how to end it. If you just hold the controls, at
the top it sort of flops over and then begins spinning downward. What
I'd like for it to do is smoothly transition into a downgoing inverted
flat spin.

I've been doing tumbles like you describe but with right knife edge,
top (left) rudder and right front corner stick. Seems to stop on
original heading after three. I usually do them with gentle rudder
and stick pushes to keep from wacking my head on the canopy.

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