MiG-29 Hammerhead turn

[AeriaGloria]

Hello, before the FM change for the MiG-29 FF, this maneuver was pretty easy, a hammerhead turn described from a western pilot who had a flight in MiG-29 by Menitsky shortly after the end of the Cold War. 
 

I remember this maneuver working really well, but it seems now the roll in the same direction as yaw is too powerful. I know this is related to or a direct cause of too strong of Lateral stability, so perhaps lateral stability is too high. Perhaps this has some knock on effect such as on the autopilot oscillations that are occurring. 
 

And perhaps my piloting is just not as good and someone else can do it much better than me. I thought to atleast mention while the autopilot oscillations are being worked on 

Description of the maneuver 

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At 500 km/hr (270 kts) indicated, I began a 4-g pull and continued bringing the nose up until the aircraft reached an 80-deg pitch atti-tude, at which point Menitskii said "stop" (which is Russian for

"stop"). I then held that nose position without changing the throttle setting and let the airspeed decay to around 250 km/hr (135 kts), at which time I briskly applied full left rudder and enough opposite aileron to keep the outside wing from picking up as it generated extra lift in the yaw.

I could feel Menitskii on the controls with me intermittently throughout the maneuver. The nose of the aircraft carved an effortless arc around the yaw axis during the float from right to left as the airspeed continued to bleed off, reaching a low of around 100 km/hr (54 kts) at the apex of the reversal. I felt in full control of the MiG-29 throughout this maneuver and could vary the yaw rate by playing the amount of rudder input. By this time, I could see enough of a horizon to complete the maneuver symmetrically using outside visual refer-ences. I allowed the nose to fall through as we headed back downhill, left the power where it had been set at the time of entry, and executed a 4-g pull to a wings-level recovery on a reciprocal heading,”

MiG-29hammerhead.trk

Edited Wednesday at 08:06 AM by AeriaGloria