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Old 03-06-2002 | 02:14 AM
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Mike Wiz
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Default Rolling Circles

I can only roll to the inside and they only look nice when I do the circle in a clockwise direction. I need to do as Doug has sugested and start practicing the other direction more.

But here is a hint for learning that helped me. A couple years ago the IMAC advanced sequence had a manuver where the pilot would fly a circle with half rolls at each of the 90° points. I watched the advanced guys fly this manuver and was intrigued. So I tried it, and after a short time I began strecthing out the rolls. I progressivly stretched out the rolls more and more and worked on the timing. Pretty soon I was doing a 4 roll circle with the plane upright at each 90° point. I think breaking down the roll in the beginning helped a lot. Of course, lots of regular 4 point roll practice was thrown in too.

Wiz