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You don't seem to understand the rather spin resistant nature of slips, even in a turn. But if slipping turns are beyond your skill level, nobody will ever force you to do one.

Slow down pardner! It's great you have such enthusiasm for aerobatics, but there is practically no such thing as a "career" in aerobatics, assuming you are not already independently wealthy. So think of aerobatics as a hobby, which it is. There is no such place as an aerobatic training academy...

Yeah I'm sure someone was gonna lovingly restore that ****can before the elevator was damaged on the recovery. ;)

The overhead pattern uses a turn to slow down rather than pulling power and waiting. But there is no NEED for it in peacetime. But it's not dangerous or inconsiderate if done properly either.

And this has to do with what exactly?

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You think a flight school needs to have a big pow-wow with all their instructors to get them to teach all their students about overhead patterns, "intial", and "break", just for a small group of formation wannabes at an airport with 170 planes based there? How about the few wannabes stop trying...

The reality of it is that if you call "initial" for the "break" at an airport where there's a beehive of flight school trainers doing laps around the pattern, nobody will know WTH you're talking about. The fact it's in the AIM doesn't, and never will change this. Pilots need to communicate with...

I challenge you to note visible differences in CHT with aggressive ground leaning vs. none while at taxi/warm up RPM.

That's not an overhead pattern though, other traffic will expect a crosswind entry rather than overhead upwind pattern entry if you say that.

I've done plenty of overhead patterns, but I'm not one of those wannabe military formie group clowns who insist on calling "initial" and "break". 99% of pilots don't know WTF that means. The point of using the PTT is to communicate, not to sound cool. So make sure COMMUNICATION actually happens...

Man where do you come up with this stuff

Nah, if you can make a Decathlon talk, you're doing way more pilot **** than most carbon mono drivers. :D

About the only thing I can think of would be doing spins with the idle setting too low. I've had that happen before where the engine quits during a spin and the prop went deadstick and I had to restart...in a plane with a starter at least. Always do spins/aerobatics over a spot you can safely...

You will need quite a few dual hours to satisfy the insurance company for solo flight. Who do you plan to use? All of your questions are easily answered during the checkout process.

Meh...you guys should go bash wing walking videos too.

So you should go around if you're using a slip to lose altitude and align for a x-wind? Since I always slipped to land my blind tailwheel airplane regardless of wind, I guess there are hundreds of landings I should have gone around on then. Now ya tell me!

About time we had some humor in this thread!

Are you intentionally being obtuse? He's saying what if you're slipping to lose altitude which happens to also put the wing down in the direction to counter x-wind. What kind of slip is that for all the pedants here? This side slip vs. forward slip nonsense doesn't change the fact that if the...

Forward slip vs sideslip is the biggest pedantic nonsense ever invented by the FAA and repeated by pedantic pilots on internet forums to try to sound erudite. There's no damm difference. Take whatever slip you'd like to think of yourself as doing at the moment, and notice that you need to make a...