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Yeah, it's mainly for visibility. You almost never see a Pitts fly a straight in approach without turning and/or slipping. Straight in, you can't see the runway at all until it flashes up into your peripheral vision during the roundout. Pitts' are also the best slipping machines ever built, so...

Nice try. We all have it set by the time the wheels touch down. Slipping all the way down final in a x-wind is kinda silly, and is just a way to give student pilots the practice and to avoid overwhelming them with the workload of waiting to manage this down at the runway level. Lots of pilots...

At the risk of commenting on something that's already been commented on a hundred thousand times, there is absolutely no reason to slip down final in a x-wind unless you're a student pilot who needs the extended practice using the controls properly to maintain drift and alignment. For the rest...

The forward vs side slip talk makes me go cross eyed, but I always did a power off left slipping base to final turn with right rudder in the blind bipe regardless of wind direction. Yeah with a right x-wind that means reversing the slip direction during the roundout. No more difficult than a...

I disagree. Don't put "airshow pilots" on a pedestal, they are just regular people who fly airshows as a hobby for the ego stroke and fun. Their talent and skill levels range from very modest to very high, just like recreational aerobatic pilots in general. Becoming an airshow pilot is more...

All true but for the casual readers here it should be understood that everything described above applies to pilots who have had little or probably NO training, and attempt stupid things they are totally unqualified for. It takes very little skill to safely roll nearly any airplane, but you need...

Or rather get some real aerobatic training first.

Low wing is not an advantage, it's a trade off.

Yep, they help slightly in taildraggers when rolling in a 3pt attitude due to AOA and adverse yaw but not so much in the level attitude of trikes.

Classic panic halfway through the roll and attempt to pull the airplane through from inverted nose down attitude and overspeed/stress. Any airplane with better ailerons than a Curtiss Jenny is quite easy to roll, just not for those who "think" they can.

Sure, but those who already know this and who would be safe doing it will not be interested in the first place.

After you get over the novelty of those first few loops and aileron rolls, you're not gonna care much about continuing to do acro in an Aerobat and you might as well have a regular 150/152 for much less money.

Comes from the RC crowd, and many pilots who first learned to fly RC still believe it's a thing. Same as "tip stall". RC BS.

Hershey bar Cherokee for sure does not require power to land. Teaching styles these days just create pilots who are uncomfortable with approaches steeper than the 3 degree dragged in airliner approach.

Triggered easily? They quoted a statement from a Finnish airline rep. :rolleyes:

I hear ya, though my last comment about tiny rudder corrections was for vertical rolls rather than hammerheads. Tiny rudder and elevator corrections can be made especially in the beginning of the vertical roll to keep the wingtip locked on the same position relative to the horizon as the...

Correct, no rudder required for a true vertical roll unless you're flying an airplane (like a Vans RV) with differential ailerons. But most aerobatic airplanes do not have diff ailerons. But sometimes you will use tiny rudder and elevator inputs during a vertical roll to correct small input...

Doesn't work out like this. In a hammerhead, the vertical upline is flown at zero angle of attack, so there is no adverse yaw even if you do move the ailerons. And you only really need to move the ailerons at the very top, just before the pivot if you're in a high powered airplane that is very...

Wingover is a lazy positive G maneuver with very little elevator or rudder deflection. You're nowhere near inverted spin risk territory. You need near full forward stick and near full rudder to spin inverted. Not gonna happen during a wingover. Newbies have ended up in inverted spins from...

High speed/G steep banked spiral comes down faster in most airplanes.