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Scale Competition Flight
Maneuvers
(Examples)
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Maneuvers are borrowed liberally from Sean Brown's book on Scale Model Helicopters. This is an excellent reference for building, detailing and flying scale model helicopters. The sections on Helicopter Flight Maneuvers are the basis of the following list of Flight Sequences and are included here for clarification and reference only. |
| Chapter 1 -
Basic Flying Manoeuvers pdf 827KB For some reason he insists on using British
Spelling throughout the text ;-)
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| Chapter 3 - Advanced Flying pdf 1,463KB | |
| Chapter 6 - Emergencies pdf 785KB | |
| Chapter 7 - Scale Props pdf 1,534KB | |
Description |
Flight-Score Points (*=Mandatory) |
Diagram |
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| Complete
Flight Sequences |
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| 1 |
Vertical Take-Off & Vertical Landing from
Heli-pad |
10* |
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| 2 |
Vertical Take-Off, Horizontal Hover to the
Left & Right, Land on Heli-pad |
10 |
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| 3 |
Vertical Take-Off, Accelerate, Stop, Return
and Land on Heli-pad |
15 |
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| 4 |
Hover-Taxi (In Ground Effect) from Pad-1 to
Pad-2 & back to Pad-1 |
10 |
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| 5 |
Pirouette (360o once, either Right or Left) Animation | 10 |
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| 6 |
Double Pirouette (one each, Right & Left
360o) |
15 |
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| 7 |
Constant Heading Square (once around the
perimeter of the flight box) |
10 |
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| 8 |
Constant Heading Figure of Eight (once inside the flight box) | 10 |
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| 9 |
Round Circuit (three times over the corners
of the flight box) |
15 |
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| 10 |
Square Circuit (three times around the
perimeter of the flight box) |
15 |
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| 11 |
Figure of Eight Circuit (three times inside the flight box) | 20 |
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| 12 |
Nose-In Circle (720o R/L inside the flight box) | 20 |
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| 13 |
Tail-In Circle (720o R/L inside the flight box) | 20 |
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| Flight
Sequence Components with which to build Custom Flight Schedules |
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Take-Off: |
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| T1) |
Limited-Power-Take-Off | 8 |
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| T2) |
Towering-Take-Off (Vertical Take-Off) | 5 |
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| T3) |
Towering Transition |
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| T4) |
Platform-Take-Off | 5 |
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Flight Maneuver: |
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| F1) |
Race-Track Circuit(s) |
5 |
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| F2) |
Square Turn Circuit(s) |
5 |
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| F3) |
Round Circuit(s) |
8 |
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| F4) |
Constant Heading Circuit(s) |
3 |
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| F5) |
Figure of Eight | 10 |
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| F6) |
180o Torque-Turn (R/L) | 5 |
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| F7) |
180o Banked-Turn (R/L) | 5 |
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| F8) |
180o Stall turn (seldom
appropriate
for Full Size Helicopters) |
10 |
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| F9) |
Accelerate, Fly level, Stop, Hover |
15 |
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| F10) | Clearing Turn (R/L) | 5 |
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| F11) |
Backward Flight | 10 |
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| F12) |
Pirouette |
10 |
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| F13) |
Nose-In Circle around a point |
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| F14) |
Tail-In Circle about a point |
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| F15) |
Hover over a fixed object |
5 |
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| F16) | Hover-Taxi or Hover In Ground Effect |
5 |
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| F17) |
Go-Around |
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Landing: |
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| L1) | Vertical Landing |
5 |
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| L2) | Steep Approach |
5 |
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| L3) | Instrument Corporate Approach |
8 |
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| L4) | No-Hesitation Approach & Touchdown | 10 |
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| L5) | Quick Stop & Land | 10 |
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| L6) | Platform-Landing | 5 |
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| L7) | Engine failure from a hover |
15 |
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| L8) | Autorotatioin from altitude |
20 |
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