by Rich Stowell, MCFI-A

During our primary training, students are required to practice various horizontal maneuvers at relatively shallow bank angles. These include turns around points, S-turns across roads and rectangular patterns, to name a few. As Commercial pilot applicants, students experiment with rudimentary vertical maneuvers still at relatively shallow bank and pitch attitudes: Chandelles, Lazy Eights, Eights on Pylons, etc. Aerobatic training goes a step further, where students start with basic maneuvers exposing them to the full range of motion around all three flight axes: spins, rolls, loops. …