I was thinking (always a dangerouse thing!) that when we first learn to fly we do endless hours flying circuits and figure eights until we get them down pat. In pushing myself recently, I have come to realise just how bad I am in know what elevator and especially what rudder to use in certain attitudes to get the desired result.

So I decided to work just on this for a bit to improve my rudder and elevator control, hopefully to get to the instinctive level that normal flying is (ie I think where I want the plane to go, not what inputs are needed to get there).

So I have gone back to just flying circuits and figure eights, only this time I am doing normal and inverted control line turns, and knife edge, both on left and right side. Aileron is only used to maintain attitude, and to change from one to the other. The plan is that as I get better, I'll change from one attitude to another more and more frequently, and therefore improve my skills further. A couple of times on sunday I managed to put in wrong rudder.[&:]

The good thing about the Capiche is that it is so stable and neutral with rudder inputs that it is purfect for this type of practise. (there, got back on subject in the end).