G-EMMA, Stik & SAS
I think you are being a little unfair on Slag (who is normally an opponent of mine in some interesting debates.)
He isn't condoning rolls in Cessnas nor recommending them, but only pointing out that in flight break ups are a low probability for accidents and not perhaps the foremost thing to worry about when renting an aircraft.
And I agree with him.
However, some of the other posts on this thread, amongst them a number by someone who probably also likes to hunt grizzlies with a hand gun have truly amazed me.
Unlike Ed Harding, Stik and Pitts 2112, I don't fly aeros.
But I read what these guys write and respect their skills/views and all of them are saying that it is not wise to perform aerobatic manouevres in an aircraft not cleared for these.
Despite Slim Slag's stats based conclusion, it is simply unconscionable to perform unauthorised manouevres, even in one's own aircraft, since the resulting aerial junk make take out some non consenting adult on the ground on the way down.
