Gents,

 

There are only a few times a pilot should trying something for the first time alone in an airplane.  Landing on an aircraft carrier for the first time (that's the Navy way, but that is after the pilot has over 100 hours practicing at a field twice daily) and "checking out" in a single seat airplane.

 

Be smart and find someone who is versed in aerobatics to demonstrate those maneuvers before trying them in your Lancair alone.  It is the prudent thing to do as an aviators.  If you don't wish to take the instructor pilot up in your plane, go rent or fly their aerobatic airplane.

 

I don't post much, but after watching the last posts on aerobatics, it sends chills up my spine as to how basic the questions have been and how there is so much misunderstanding of the basics. 

 

You wouldn't fly in a cloud alone for the first time, would you?

 

Remember boys, there are no old bold pilot,

Hartley Postlethwaite