This is one of the most basic maneuvers, but not easy to fly well. It has to be perfectly round, entry and exit have to be
at the same altitude. The difficulty in flying this manuever well is in correcting for effects of wind drift. In competition,
it helps if you don't have to fly first, so you can watch what your competitors are doing and judge the wind drift that you
have to take into account.
The maneuver starts with a pullup of about 3 - 4 g. Once past the vertical, the back pressure on the elevator is slowly relaxed
to float over to top of the loop to keep it round. Past the top, the back pressure is slowly increased again throughout the
back part till horizontal flight. The plane has to stay in one plane with the wings orthogonal to the flight path. Rudder
is used to maintain the plane of the figure and ailerons are used to maintain the orientation of the wings.
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