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Segments and Transitions
Note: This looks abstract, but it will lead to a very down-to-earth conclusion about practising efficiently.
A competition-level 3D freestyle flight can always be broken down into segments and transitions.
- A segment is a continuous flight phase.
- Transitions take the model from one segment to the next.
- hovering
- straight flight
- continuous circles
- loops
- ascent and descent (straight up and down using collective control)
- straight up- or down flight (using momentum, for example stall turn or tail slide)
- funnel (side-in inverted circle), see variations on the next
page.
- A stop, connecting straight flight and hover
- A roll, connecting two straight flight segments
- a piro, connecting forwards with backwards flight
For most advanced pilots, the transitions tend to be the main challenge. In a way, they take the segments to the next level of difficulty.
For example:
- Flying repeated funnels is "relatively" easy - after three rounds, it stabilizes
- Flying a single funnel from straight flight is in comparison very difficult.
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