Originally Posted by
Rivet gun
This should not happen. If there is time to spare on the AUPRT course it should be spent practicing and improving UPRT skills, not in aerobatics. See GM1 FCL.745.A (b) (4).
Check out this video for an insight into what constitutes good UPRT (for the avoidance of doubt, I have no connection with this organisation)
https://academy.apstraining.com/p/pe...-and-solutions click "watch promo"
Note that a normal cat aircraft such as C172 is restricted to the yellow region in the pitch roll attitude diagram. To quote Ransbury "The bad news is, the skills from the blue and the yellow boxes don't transfer into the red region"
I think that you're overestimating the content of the average EASA AUPRT acc. FCL745A. Check it out on youtube, not much to it and yes, they all do loops and rolls etc. pure aerobatics well outside of the scope of auprt.
With regards to the plane, sure it can't hurt to do it on a E330. But why learn to drive in a Ferrari when you can achieve the same goal in a Fiat Panda? As long as your learning doesn't suffer - and for this crucial part I doubt that the airplane matters for most students.
Why: 90% of ab initio students never flew a turn greater than 45 degrees AOB. Are they able to absorb significantly more from an auprt course in an E330? Doubt it to be honest. Mental and physical saturation point is pretty low if this is all new for you.
PS a 172 can do more than SLF