When you take a pretty good sport flyer and try to do some precision aerobatics and critique those maneuvers. Both planes fly like crap in the latter instance!

There MAY be a club level event in the Cedar Rapids IA area in September. My only two choices for a plane at this point is a Sig Four Star with an Enya 90 4C and a Pulse XT 40 with a YS 63. Both show quite a bit of roll coupling, need a lot of down elevator inverted and need a TON of aileron correction in a stall turn. The Four Star has a slight edge over the Pulse but the Enya just does not throttle as nice as the YS. (no surprise there!) I do have a YS 91AC I could put on the 4 Star.

I plan on attending this event if it takes place as it is a reasonable distance for me to drive. I'll continue to practice the Sportsman schedule and see if competitive pattern suites me at my "advanced" age.

Ken