If a person decides to advance in acrobatics. I recommend practicing rolling 360s in a fully acrobatic aircraft. A low g maneuver that won't beat you up and is much like golf in that you will never get one good enough. To be truly acrobatic is to know which control moves the nose in the desired direction regardless of attitude. Achieving that level makes one a truly comfortable airline pilot. Initial aerobatic training is to enter maneuver then to ride through it. That is stunt pilot stuff and not the flying of a pro. In this site there are pictures of an F14 in a spin which reminds me of the movie Top Gun. Art Scholl was killed in that movie. The director wanted a flat spin, I've heard an inverted one, either way it was so much horse hockey because the audience can not tell the difference between an upright, an inverted or a flat spin. I've been in a lot of spins following a botched maneuver and I can't tell the difference until I see the nose position relative to the ground. Scholl was an excellent pilot who also taught aerodynamics at college. His death shows you can't learn enough. Considering ones flying career spans 40 plus years. Learning as much about flying as one can is not a bad idea, because if you are honest you'll never be as good a pilot as you want to be.
Last edited by pooch817; 05-27-2019 at 07:57 AM.