Pilot135pd
Well Known Member
The "aside from" is *exactly* how they can botch up a "simple" roll, especially for someone who hasn't had much, or any, aerobatic training. It is *very* common for someone to ease off the stick deflection during their first roll, and end up with a roll rate near zero and inverted. When it doesn't look right, panic sets in, and the genetic programming in humans is to contract into a smaller space, which means hands come back towards the belly. Result? A split-S.
That makes sense.