Twtaylor,

Glen made the point very clear. It is all about proportions and presentation.

A couple of supporting examples for you to understand.

1. Consider you do a Stall Turn, half roll up, two opposite half rolls down. According to the book, roll rates must be equal, so as the radii. You will go upline with a slower speed (actually as fast as your plane climbs, make a nice half roll, and choose to go down fast after the stall turn and pray if you can perform two opposite half roll in the down line and fibnish with a quarter loop having a radius same as the first. I guess, you will end up at minus 10 ft. elevation below the ground level!

2. Consider you perform a Eight point roll as a center maneuver. Say you are flying far, at 175 to 200 meters away. Go full throttle and try to fit your perfect eight point roll from one side of the box to the other, showing up your hesitations. I guess you will miss the box big time and get the lowest score for the next maneuver which you will perform out of the box.

I am flying FAI for 30 years so far. After the introduction of turn around pattern in 1983, it always went slower and bigger, more available power but more throttle management. Of course without exceeding the 10 minute window.

It was Hanno Prettner who invented the "contant speed" flying. Quique, CPLR, even the Matt family (Wolfgang and Roland are famous for flying faster than the other top pilots) followed the same rout...

Nedim