so ive been flying freestyle for like 8 months now and just recently started noticing that my rolls snap really clean but whenever i do a split s or just a basic backflip the quad kind of... floats? like it doesnt commit the same way. its not a horrible feeling but when im trying to link a splitS into a dive it just feels off compared to how tight the rolls are

running betaflight 4.4 on a 5 inch, motors are around 2400kv, stock pids for the most part with just some minor tweaks on P and D. not sure if this is a filtering thing or if i need to mess with the pitch tune specifically. anyone dealt with this before

yeah pitch axis almost always needs its own attention, most people just copy roll values over and wonder why it feels different. pitch has more rotational inertia on most builds because of the battery placement so you usually need to bump P a bit and maybe back off D slightly compared to roll. try increasing pitch P by like 5-10% increments and refly, youll probably feel it snap up faster. also check if your P term is oscillating after the flip ? if the nose is bobbing when it comes out of the rotation then back D up a touch

could also be throttle related honestly, i had something similar and it turned out i was just instinctively chopping throttle too early going into backflips. not saying thats your issue but worth thinking about before diving deep into pids