"salty1" <salty1@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<kJh39.13446$cI.1022215@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> Does the group
> have any ideas as to which method is best?

My first airplane was a Citabria and I flew many aileron rolls in it.
You've already had some very good advice, but I'll add this:

1.) Get a competent instructor.

2.) Don't get obsessed with the proper number of degrees to pitch-up
before the roll. Just pull the nose up until your feet are on the
horizon (it'll make complete sense when you're sitting in the cockpit,
trust me).

3.) Fly with a competent instructor first.

4.) Do get off the rudder after you initiate the roll, but I'd advise
you get back on the rudder as you approach the 270 degree point to
help hold that nose up.

5.) Listen to your competent instructor!

6.) You only think that you're holding full aileron into the roll.
You won't be. Push the aileron. Hard. Then push more to HOLD IT
THERE or it'll just come right back out.

7.) After your competent instructor turns you loose, get up there and
fly those rolls! They are enormously fun, easy on the body, and
graceful (i.e. in the Citabria you have to find a nice way to say
'take forever' :-)

-Dave Russell
8KCAB (and no, it won't snap your head with blinding roll rate,
either...)

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