Well, my wife made over half a dozen loops today. Next we're going to go back to the little 1/2-A thing and learn lazy eights, in preparation for inverted flight and outside loops.
My right shoulder is still not up to flying, so I brought Sister Jenny out and did as much as I dared with my left. There's an amazing amount of stuff that I just can't do left-handed still -- I think I now have the flavor, if not nearly the magnitude, of what it would take to re-learn how to do things if I ever get a stroke.
My left hand managed to fly inside and outside loops, inverted flight, a square loop, a triangle, and lazy eights for all the maneuvers I didn't have the courage to try. It's getting better, but I lost line tension on landing (the engine cut out in a loop), got discombobulated, and had a hard landing (it was just a very ungraceful bend-the-gear sort of landing, fortunately, not a "break Sister Jenny" landing).
It certainly looks like I'll be flying Carrier only at Roseburg -- but if a miracle happens and I can manage a reverse wingover I may do profile. I'll nail down the low score with all the maneuvers I can do and zeros for the rest.
One of my club members was bragging about all the surgery he's had to his wrists and shoulders -- I said thank you very much, allowing someone to cut bits off of me with a knife will be a last resort, not the first thing I do.
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