I agree that aerobatics must be approached cautiously but not all Lancair designs are accidents waiting to happen.  Our slim-winged IV-P brethren deal with one set of circumstances while the ES and Legacy and even the Evolution might offer greater capabilities.  On my first familiarization flight in the ES I asked the Lancair instructor about the roll rate.  His reply was “I don’t know – time it”.  We spent the next 20 minutes rolling the plane quite comfortably in both directions over the Oregon high desert and then went on our merry way.  Not a spirited performer like a Pitts S2C  but that was not the intended use.  I do not know what the instructor’s response would have been had we been flying a IV-P. 

Robert Simon

ES-P N301ES

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