Well, the topic has been deviated from where it was really started. In my short experience, I would like to ask, is it necessary to learn the maneuvers or just simply flying is good, how to keep the plane airborne, how to take off safely land it safely with approaches and everything. And how to recover a plane when any part of the plane starts playing up, and how to control a plane and bring it down safely with higher windy conditions, like 15 to 20 mph like I experienced last tuesday. As my second plane is easy sport 60 size big size little heavy nose, but wind helped it a lot during landing cos, all those landings were on dead sticks, not powered landing.

I have been flying since January 2006, and Im on my second plane. I can do rolls, loops, snap rolls, and confident that I can do knife edge as well, but hovering would take a lot of time. Yes simulators help a lot, after being expert in my own opinion I thought I could hit the ground and fly the plane, I was entirely wrong, as I learned on P51 Mustang PTS of HANGAR 9, NOT HANGER first time when I took the Tx I didnt know what Im doing, and plane started taking a nose dive, within 5 seconds Tx was in the hands of senior flyer who handed me. Yes simulator is a helpful tool, but real flying in the field as compared to SIM are 2 different entities. This is what I learned and naturally I would never be a beginner but always a learner.

All the best to the new flyers and GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL.

Mody