Originally Posted by
stiknruda
Okay, top of a loop, starting to avalanche, esp if you are a wee bit early - you pull the stick back, boot in left rudder and keep it and the stick static, I know that my biplane is all too happy to spin! Okay you've flicked it in with power but as the left wing loses lift it doesn't regain it until you stop the rotation. Unless you pull the power back it goes quite flat quite quickly 3 to 4turns. Rate of decent is not particularly high but it won't be part of my display routine this year!
To a man, the elder statesmen of the MAXG crew (Tim J, Abbo & Rob H) are firmly of the opinion that a left foot avalanche is asking for trouble, exactly as you describe - it winds itself up very quickly - hence I've only tried it with the right foot - it does flick nicely to the left in other cases though.
Looking forward to some monoplane heresy myself this week in the Plastic Fantastic 300 - all the other toys have gone tech (Yak has no elevators, need to fix the wobbly *upper* ailerons on MAXG).