The first thing I'll say about any of this, is not to try any of these maneuvers without instruction. If you don't know how to correct a spin, don't try to go into one! This is not instructions on how to do these things, but they are presented here to give you a feel for what they are like. That being said, we'll talk about unusual attitudes. What I mean here is something other than flying along straight and level, or making standard turns. Some of these things are taught, some may not be. The first thing that new pilots I've known play with is hard stalls. I'm not talking about slowly pulling the stick back slowing down until finally the plane shudders a little and the nose drops to regain speed. The kind of stall I'm talking about is pulling the stick back hard, pulling the airplane up to a 45 degree angle or higher. Your feet are higher than your head at this point, and all you can see is sky. Then when the plane stalls, it really drops, and for a few seconds, you are in freefall. I've done this a lot and so have my friends. We've been flying next to each other and I've seen what it looks like from an observers view. The drop is at least 50 feet. This can also be done in turns, but if you're not careful, stalling in a turn can go right into a spin.

Another fun maneuver is called a wing-over. This maneuver also let's you experience zero-gee for a few seconds, and is about the same fun as hard stalls. You enter this maneuver the same way as a hard stall, but before you get to stall speed, you kick in rudder and the plane makes a hard turn and goes back the way it came. It looks very much like the move trick skateboarders do as they come straight up to the wall, and at the last second, turn quickly, and go back down the way they came. Only we do it the air! Again, this can go into a spin if you are not careful!

Another fun move is the tailspin itself. Pull up, up ,up. Just before stall, kick full rudder while holding the stick all the way back. The plane will whip quickly to one side and then be pointed right at the ground. Spinning. The harder you push on the rudder, the faster it spins. I've done 8 consecutive spins myself. The only reason I didn't do more was I got dizzy!

The only other move we can do is the loop. I haven't done it yet, but I've been in a plane while someone else did the move, and I've seen it done in an ultralight. It's not a nice round loop, like in a larger plane. The flight path would look more like a cursive lowercase L from the side. Any of the other aerobatics like outside loops can't be done without a very special ultralight. An ultralight just has too much drag to perform this way. For most of us, the dips and dives we can do are plenty enough to change the G forces on our bodies from zero to 3 or 4.