Flaps were engaged for the whole fifteen minutes of the flight, most of it just a few feet above the ridge. Just long enough to show that the handling in light lift is nimble for a largish machine. Westerly at the Beacon. This time some mild aerobatics were performed. Stall turns are easy, the rudder function being quite effective at the top of the vertical.
Loops are straightforward.
Rolls were a bit leisurely and not terribly axial, more setting up and practice would put this right. Inverted flight was undramatic with a little forward stick to hold the nose up. Aerobatics culminated in a couple of inverted stall turns . The third session was at the Bwlch in S. Wales, which was your reviewer's first BMFA F3F league comp and required, a different approach. For gentle passes, substitute screaming vertical dives followed by fast pullouts to straight and level .