The plane seemed always to be getting repaired every time I booked but finally the planets aligned and I was booked!
I headed out to Camden on a crisp clear Sunday morning and after a quick briefing from Doug on how to get out if we end up upside down on the ground, unnerving but good to know, off we took.
As I have my licence, I was allowed to fly out to the training area and I must say she is a very stable bird! I enjoyed having a stick it made a change from the yoke style Cessna and Piper aircraft I usually fly.
Once out in the training area, we warmed up with an aileron roll, then into a hammerhead/stall turn, then a loop, then a barrel roll and back to a loop. After becoming vertical from a hammerhead, we got the aircraft a little inverted, and as the engine wasn't built for being inverted, it well, ah stopped.... The next thing that happened was it wouldn't tip back again to regain elevator control! Picture being vertical, slightly inverted, pointed towards the ground at approx 3000ft with a stopped engine and stalled wings, er interesting to say the least!
I must say I did enjoy the different perspectives, and while I don't think aeros are for me, I certainly can see an advantage to learning how to recover from those sorts of angles.
Thanks for reading.
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