8
hours
Ground school and briefing
5
hours
Flying
4
days
Required to complete
Airmanship
- Collision avoidance
- Nuisance reduction
- Navigation
Human Factors
- Motion sickness
- Orientation
- The physiological effects of G and how to manage this safely
- GLOC and how to guard against it
Engine & Airframe
- Knowledge of limitations & safety aspects
- Pre-flight procedures
- The different operating practices that are recommended with aerobatic aircraft
Competition Craft
- An understanding of the competition box
- Competition rules for Beginner Comps
- Entering the exiting the box
- An understanding of the judging criteria for the beginners sequence and selected figures from the Standard sequence.
- The ability to compete at Beginners level at a BAeA event.
Handling Skills
- Recovery from a loss of control, including:
- Power off and power on normal and high speed stalls with and without bank
- Power off, erect spins (non-precision recoveries)
- Power on tail slides
- Recovery from Unusual Attitudes
- Wing rocks
- Slow flight – Level, climbing, turning & descending
- Advanced steep turns
- 45 lines
- Loops
- Ballistic Roll
- Aileron Roll
- Half Cuban
- Barrel Roll*
- Stall Turn
- Half Roll off the top of a Loop
- Quarter Clover, rolling upwards*
- Fly BAeA Beginner Sequence
* May be skipped in favour of more focus in other areas (in keeping with changes to BAeA sequence guidelines).