Thrifty as owner you are allowed to do your own flight tests to the supplied schedule. It's a matter of sitting down beforehand and working out what you have to do from the schedule followed by figuring out how you are going to do it.
As with everything else the 6P method works (Prior Planning Prevents P1ss Poor Performance).
Doing the Cub flight test was the first time I had done anything like that so I dug around all the bods I knew who had done flight tests and tried to learn from their experiences. I subsequently enjoyed it, the Vne dive wasn't that bad really. I would have been quite happy to do the Auster FT but I'm out of the UK until just before the Pprune fly-in on 5th April so somebody else will be doing it.
Going back to the Vne dive, I was unused to pointing the Cub at the ground so steeply. I was used to it when I had an Aerobat and did (poor) loops and stall-turns. My Cub flying was more steep turns, chandelles, side slips and rabbit chasing
