Learning to Fly Aerobatics
Posted on April 15, 2012 by jalsip
Flying aerobatics is a journey that should begin with safety; you must learn to recover from stalls, upset attitudes and spins. Next you should learn the basics. In a basic aerobatics course, expect to fly the three fundamentals of aerobatics: lines, loops and turns plus aileron rolls. All aerobatic figures comprise one or more of those fundamentals. For example what we call a roll, is actually a line (horizontal, 45 degree or vertical) with a rotational element (a roll). Rolls can be placed on any basic figure. A snap roll at the top a loop is called an avalanche; a rolling turn is one or more rolls placed on a 90, 180, 270 or 360 degree turn. The basic skills, (line, loop, turn, roll) can be used in a plethora of combinations to form more complex aerobatic figures; for example, the popular air show maneuver called a half Cuban is 5/8 of a loop with a ½ roll centered on a 45 degree inverted down line.
There is much more to flying and enjoying aerobatics than just performing the basics. In my Aerobatics Course – Flying the Figures, you will:
- learn about power management and energy conservation;
- learn about Aresti, the system by which we describe aerobatic figures, and assign them to families; for example, the split S, Immelman and Goldfish, are figures from the loop family of figures.
- fly aerobatic figures from a different family of figures during each of the first four lessons. You will learn to fly the most popular figures from each of the following families: Loops, Lines and Angles, Hammerheads and Combinations of Lines and Loops.
- learn to develop and fly aerobatic sequences in the final two lessons.
Caution!!! The fun you will have in this course could be unbearable as you loop and roll, push and pull through a sequence of figures that might include a humpty bump, hammerhead, loop, Immelman, spin, ½ Cuban, reverse shark tooth, and 2 point roll.
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