want to know how others use their pedals when doing a roll.

[Avimimus]

It depends on the plane, the flying conditions and the purpose of the roll.

After a "sizors" type sequence, in the Mig-3, at the right speed, it is possible to climb and then use the rudder to maintain pitch while banking sideways. As the aircraft approaches stalling speed one can throw the nose still higher and then, reversing rudder, use its weight to produce a tremendous downward yaw a few seconds later. This produces a very large amount of side-slip and can bring you right behind an enemy fighter that would have escaped any other aircraft. The whole maneuver last two to three seconds. It is a very specific form of the barrel roll (essentially unique to one aircraft, at a certain flight speed).

One of the neatest maneuvers possible, as far as I know, only in certain Yak-9 variants:
1) Pitch up abruptly so that the airplane exceeds AOA (begins to jerk)
2) Just as the vibrations begin apply full right rudder and full right aileron (the aircraft should begin to spin). Keep pitching up.
3) Once the spin is established (about one second) reverse the rudder and elevators (ie. pitch down and yaw left). Keep the Aileron at full right deflection.
4) This should put the aircraft into an inverted high-speed spin (with the wings exceeding the maximum negative angle of attack). Recovery is relatively straightforward...

Does anyone else have similar aircraft specific or bizarre maneuvers?

S!