*this course requires Basic course to be completed
12
hours
Ground school and briefing
8
hours
Flying
6
days
Required to complete
Additional Training
Sportsman Competition Training: £360 / 1 hr (plus £15 per sortie landing fee)
Formal ground-school: £60 per classroom session (presumes more than 1 student)
Theoretical Knowledge Instruction
TECHNICAL SUBJECTS
- Kinetic and potential energy
- Energy management
- Stalling and spinning – principles of flight
AIRCRAFT – SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS
- Aileron design and adverse yaw
- P-factor and slipstream effects
- Propeller gyroscopics
- Weight, balance and inertia
- G limitations
EMERGENCY DRILLS
- Use of parachutes. Aircraft abandonment
ARESTI
- Notation for Standard aerobatic maneouvres
- Aresti System (Condensed)
(http://www.aresti system.com)
SEQUENCE APPRECIATION
- Height analysis
- Sequence learning and preparation
- Effects of headwind and crosswind on figures
Flight Exercises
- Airmanship – Considerations as applicable to the flight exercise.
- Basic Aerobatics – revision
- Loops
- Rolls using aileron
- Stall turns
- Half-Loop,
- Half-Roll
- Spins entered from level deceleration
- Spins entered after a climbing 45° line
- Precision spin recoveries including 1, 1¼ and 1½ turns.
- Recoveries from mis-handled vertical lines, including inadvertent spins.
- Torque and gyroscopics at low speed.
- Combination of:
- Half Barrel Roll up and Half Loop down
- (Quarter Clover rolling upwards)
- Precision Wingovers
- (Lazy Eights)
Long briefings
- Precision recoveries from intentional spins
- Rotational changes during recovery
- Effects of relative wind on recovery attitude
- Climbing and descending at 45° attitudes
- Flying vertical lines up and down
- Effect of different trim settings
- Difference between attitude and flight path
- Hesitation Loops
- (P-Loops, Q-Loops and Humpty-Bumps)
- Figures combining part loops with half rolls.
- Hesitation Rolls
Sportsman Aerobatic Manoeuvres
- Half Cuban Eight (rolling on down line) entered from descending 45° line (Goldfish
- Half Reverse Cuban Eight (rolling on up line)
- Ditto followed by climbing 45° line
- Half Roll and Half Loop down (Split-S)
- Two-Point Roll
- Four-Point Roll
- Stall Turn with ¼ roll down
- Hesitation Loops (P, Q and Humpty)