Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:56 pm
#1803443
No, really!
I decided that today I was going to start working towards flying my first Unlimited sequence.
I am not ready to put everything together yet, so it will probably be a while before I can fly a whole sequence, but I have a 'nice' Unlimited Free Known, that I can use to practice.
It starts with this:
For the uninitiated, that is 1 1/2 rolls followed by an outside loop with a negative flick roll at the top (aka an outside avalanche) and a 2x4 roll on the down line.
My neg flicks aren't very good so this is a good figure to practice to improve them. I flew it about 4 times, by then I had a bit of a headache from all that neg G. So I started flying some push-humptys (vertical line half outside loops to vert down) but with a neg flick in the middle - it saved the hard push at the start of the outside loop!
I flew quite a lot of those
When I had enough of that I flew a bunch of neg-flicks on various lines 45-up, 45-down and level - not tried on the vertical yet.
Once I had had enough of that I moved on to this:
Again for Aresti non-readers, that is a vertical line with two full rolls on the way up, followed by a wheels-down tail-slide and 1 1/2 rolls on the way down.
The hard part of this is really the 2 rolls on the way up, rolling twice, and stoping accurately is very difficult - but then I remember when vertical half rolls were hard, so I suppose that they will improve with practice.
I stopped when I started to feel a bit sick and my eyes hurt - from all the negative G. I was mostly pushing about -4 but sometimes more.
It is now about 5 hours later and my eyes still hurt a little bit.
I think that I am probably too old to ever fly Unlimited aerobatics competitively, but I am working hard on getting better at flying Advanced aeros, and the experts tell me that "practicing a level-up" is a good way to improve.
It's funny the things that we do for fun isn't it!
I decided that today I was going to start working towards flying my first Unlimited sequence.
I am not ready to put everything together yet, so it will probably be a while before I can fly a whole sequence, but I have a 'nice' Unlimited Free Known, that I can use to practice.
It starts with this:
For the uninitiated, that is 1 1/2 rolls followed by an outside loop with a negative flick roll at the top (aka an outside avalanche) and a 2x4 roll on the down line.
My neg flicks aren't very good so this is a good figure to practice to improve them. I flew it about 4 times, by then I had a bit of a headache from all that neg G. So I started flying some push-humptys (vertical line half outside loops to vert down) but with a neg flick in the middle - it saved the hard push at the start of the outside loop!
I flew quite a lot of those
When I had enough of that I flew a bunch of neg-flicks on various lines 45-up, 45-down and level - not tried on the vertical yet.
Once I had had enough of that I moved on to this:
Again for Aresti non-readers, that is a vertical line with two full rolls on the way up, followed by a wheels-down tail-slide and 1 1/2 rolls on the way down.
The hard part of this is really the 2 rolls on the way up, rolling twice, and stoping accurately is very difficult - but then I remember when vertical half rolls were hard, so I suppose that they will improve with practice.
I stopped when I started to feel a bit sick and my eyes hurt - from all the negative G. I was mostly pushing about -4 but sometimes more.
It is now about 5 hours later and my eyes still hurt a little bit.
I think that I am probably too old to ever fly Unlimited aerobatics competitively, but I am working hard on getting better at flying Advanced aeros, and the experts tell me that "practicing a level-up" is a good way to improve.
It's funny the things that we do for fun isn't it!