My first flight in a Pitts today (S2B). Now that was quite a flight! We did
all the usual stff, rolls, loops, some vertical stuff. Rolling was amazing.
It took me a while to get loops to come out OK, for some reason I kept
relaxing the stick after the initial pull and running out of energy. The
view is fantastic, at least except straight out the front, which is
terrible. I didn't try to land or takeoff, maybe next time. My instructor
said the only thing harder to land than a Pitts is a U2 (yes, he has flown
one, but he doesn't have one on the line).

We did a couple of vertical rolls, his was a lot better than mine, I suppose
he's done it before. And a thing called a "zwiebelturm" (sp... I think that
means "onion tower", which doesn't make a lot of sense to me!). Anyway
everything goes round very fast in all directions, and at some point you're
looking at the ground in an incipient spin. Apparently if it's done right
you end up in an inverted flat spin going upwards. We did flat spins too,
which were cool, kind of relaxing as you twirl around almost horizontal.

Can't wait for the next session...

John