Here is a good trick for regaining control and/or orientation after losing it:

Center the sticks and then pull up elevator. Returning sticks to center allows the plane to straighten out (stop spinning, rolling, twisting,…) reestablishing control. Pulling up elevator shows where the top side is. Orientation becomes obvious fast. It does not matter if banked or nose up or down after centering sticks. As long as there is no rudder or aileron deflection, pulling up elevator will make the plane loop around and around, either sideways or vertical or however. Now just keep pulling till you figure it out.

This maneuver has the benefit of giving the pilot "time" to settle down and get back in the game without worrying about the plane flying away or into the ground immediately. The plane will stay looping, in whatever orientation, in basically the same location, as long as up is held and aileron and rudder remain centered.

There are 2 requirements for this maneuver to work:

1. You must have enough altitude to loop out if inverted. This altitude is what is commonly know as "one mistake" high. And the old thumb rule for safe and conservative altitude management is to "remain at least 3 mistakes high" while training or learning any new maneuver.

2. Elevator throw has to be less than what it takes to stall. If you pull hard enough to stall, the plane will snap and spin instead of loop. Any good trainer will not stall. For aerobatic types, I recommend setting up low rate elevator to be not enough to snap out of a loop at full back stick. Then flying in low rate elevator becomes relatively "safe."

So, when in doubt just remember: "LET GO, PULL BACK" (neutralize flight path, then loop). Next time you fly, try this out, from any flight attitude, with any airplane. Don't rush to recover. Just let the plane continue looping. Observe how it remains basically in the same chunk of airspace giving the pilot time.

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