What is the answer? Who knows..
I did my first loop in a Cessna aerobat a very long time ago over Buckinghamshire (England). I'd covered spin recovery training in my PPL etc.
Couldn't afford basic aero training after I got my PPL, so read a book, talked to a very very decent instructor, and went off for some "general handling!"
A couple of years later I did QFI upgrade with a gentleman who was an Empire Test Pilot Instructor…. So modest, so bloody clever and so bloody capable. AND so able to TEACH. I won't mention his name, and very sadly, I think he won't be with us anymore.. A truly sad lose to aviation. EGTB, TG.
Anyway, we should all have had a go at seeing the world from a different angle before we get control of a jet with 200 pax with computers that we think won't let the sun me under us!!
Last edited by fokker1000; 5th Sep 2015 at 13:42.