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Variations

One technique to come up with new challenges is to practise variations of moves you know.

Most important: Learning n variations does not take n times the effort. Far from it. For example, my guess is that tackling all 8 forwards flight variations requires about two or three times the effort, compared to one direction. You'll almost get the final ones "for free".

The common options are:

Hovering:

  • Location: Left-right, forwards-backwards, up-down. Hover in different directions without turning your body
  • Movement: Move controlled between locations
  • Angle: Master nose-in, side-in and all 12 directions, like hours on a clockface.
  • Piro: Learn to hover piroing slowly left and right

Forwards flight

  • Figure 8 with the cross-over facing away (this is IMO the easiest and probably safest variant).
  • Figure 8 with the cross-over facing towards the pilot
  • Left-hand circles
  • Right-hand circles
  • The same backwards
  • The same nose-in 
  • The same tail-in
This may look like a lot of work. It is, but you have to learn them anyway. My point is simply, learn them systematically and save time.
 I should mention that I did the forwards flight program myself three years ago, exactly as described here.

Stall turns

  • First forwards, and a while later in all four directions

Loops

  • First forwards, and finally in all four directions

Inverted

You guessed it: All the hovering, but skids up. Then the forwards flight program.
Again, I "beta-tested" this program myself. It is a lot of work, but I don't think there is a better way.

Piroing

And this is where the learning curve skyrockets.
For me, the hovering exercises (piroing hover just moving left-to-right and back) felt the hardest.
Piroing stall turns are an extremely valuable exercise, few people ever mention this.

 
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