"mike regish" wrote in message
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I did some aerobatics in a Decathlon and what surprised me the most doing
my first barrel roll was how slow it was. I thought I would just whip
around it and be done with it, but it took some time to get all the way
around. Even snap rolls were pretty slow. This would no doubt be longer in
a 172 with what I'm pretty sure is a significantly slower roll rate than a
Decathlon. It's the reason I won't try them in my Tripacer. That would be
WAY slow going around and would probably result in more G's coming out.

mike regish


I dunno Mike,
I always felt my TriPacer had a pretty snappy roll rate. It surely felt
quicker than a Skyhawk. I never tried rolling it tho, nor would I recommend
it for other reasons.

I watched a (very skilled) pilot roll a Champ, now that was slow! ;-)

Marty