On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 2:21:29 PM UTC-4, Tony Verhulst wrote:
On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 1:45:20 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Does anyone know if it is safe, assuming you are properly trained in aerobatics,
to perform loops, rolls and inverted flying in a 1-26E?
Glider is rated at +5.3 -3.3 Gs

Loops are fine but it takes a lot of time (and altitude) to build up sufficient speed. I would not do inverted flight because you don't know what's going to come up from below the floor boards. When I did an acro course, everything in your pockets was locked away before the flight. If anything was ever dropped in the aircraft, you did not fly until it was found.

Tony

When I did an acro course, everything in your pockets was locked away before the flight. If anything was ever dropped in the aircraft, you did not fly until it was found.
My home-field was frequently visited by an aerobatic pilot in his Zlin aerobatic aircraft. He had a zippered bag with 'street-shoes' and a door mat in a locked compartment behind the seat. Before getting out of his plane at the parking position, he would place the door mat on the wing and - sitting on the wing - change from 'flight-shoes' to 'street-shoes'. When getting back into the cockpit, he would wipe off his street-shoes thoroughly, change back to flight shoes, shake out the door mat and place it all back into the bag.
Call it anal but his cockpit was immaculate and he was not at risk getting a hand-full of dirt in his eyes during his performances!

Uli
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