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Aerobatic Flight Training

We use as our aerobatic training guide the publication by Art Medore entitled "Primary Aerobatic Flight Training with Military Techniques." This flight training into the realm of aerobatic flight enhances pilot confidence and safety and provides the pilot the basic for entry into competitive aerobatics if he or she so desires. An outline of the basic course is as follows:

Lesson 1

  1. Precision Climbs
  2. Coordination Exercise
  3. Oscillation Stall
  4. Lufbery Turns
  5. Military Chandelles
  6. High speed Stall out of a Lufbery Turn - demonstrated

Lesson 2

  1. Review previous lesson
  2. Wingover
  3. Military Lazy Eight
  4. Spins (1 and 2 turns)

Lesson 3

  1. Loops
  2. Falling Leaf

Lesson 4

  1. Vertical Reverse
  2. Snap Rolls
  3. Review solo check out procedure

Lesson 5

  1. Review all maneuvers to date first solo flight by student

Lesson 6

  1. Split "S"
  2. Hammerhead Turns
  3. Cuban Eight

Lesson 7

  1. Vertical Reverse
  2. Snap Roll
  3. Hammerhead Turns
  4. Split "S"
  5. Loops

Lesson 8

  1. Immelman Turns
  2. Knife Edge Flight
  3. Aileron Roll

Lesson 9

  1. Barrel Roll
  2. Slow Roll

Lesson 10

  1. Review

Lesson 11

  1. Whifferdill
  2. Aerobatic Sequence

Lesson 12

  1. Review

More advanced aerobatics are possible and will be structured to the individual requirements and the needs of the student to meet his or her specific dreams of flight into the world of aerobatics.