In article , Big John wrote:
On a 172,. I'd do a barrel roll in the bird but not a slow roll or
aileron roll .Either would over stress the bird 99 times out of a
hundred.

Really?

All the eileron rolls I've ever done have been distinctly low-G
manoevres. Dive a little to gain entry speed, pull the nose up to
about 30 degrees above the horizon, then full aileron until the world
comes the right way up again, at which point you'll be about 20 degrees
nose down. The G-meter has never shown more than 1.5G after
an aileron roll for me, and that was done in the initial pull-up.

I thought a C172 in the utility category was good for 4.2G, not 1.5G!

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