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[Bootlegger]

What is the best way to teach someone to fly inverted?

[Lee Thiel]

For me, it was doing lazy 8's and just keeping enlarging the inverted part more and more until I got used to it.  Didn't take long for me to grasp the hang of it.
Lee TGD

[pat king]

I agree with Lee. Just keep stretching the inverted portion of the lazy eights until the pilot becomes comfortable with the inverted flight. Going into it with the pilot knowing he is going to pull up then pull down has them predisposed to do the right thing to pull out of the inverted portion.

Pat

[Kim Doherty]

IMHO - Start with round loops. Begin to stretch the top out to a jelly bean shape a bit each flying session until they are flying 1/3 of the lap inverted (don't do it all at once!). Once the pilot can adjust the altitude up and down a bit on the inverted portion have them go all the way around up high inverted and finish off by completing the loop downwind. This way if anything goes wrong you are still a couple of mistekes high and it is irrelevant which way or where the mistake is made.

Kim

[Wynn Robins]

and for goodness sake use a 35 sized plane or similar that flies slowly enough for people to handle - the amount of people that say " i built a 1/2a to learn to fly inverted" and what not always gives me the willies! slow and steady is the best type of plane to learn on.

[Tim Wescott]

and for goodness sake use a 35 sized plane or similar that flies slowly enough for people to handle - the amount of people that say " i built a 1/2a to learn to fly inverted" and what not always gives me the willies! slow and steady is the best type of plane to learn on.

Is there any other way to learn to fly inverted than with an .049 buzzing away at the end of Dacron lines?

[Robert McHam]

Is there any other way to learn to fly inverted than with an .049 buzzing away at the end of Dacron lines?

No other way I know of! Once you get comfortable doing this, moving up to bigger planes on longer lines is a breeze!

Robert

[W.D. Roland]

I did it Lees way.
With a 1/2A flightstreak with my arm in a cast and a cool little handle with 2 loops that my fingers fit in.

My dad always said to hold the handle sideways so that when you got confused simply stop turning and the airplane would automatically outside loop(inside inverted) back to upright flight.

That did not work in a cast and he (dad) never got good with inverted.
For me its same as upright.

David

[George]

I just went for it using a .15 powered plane. I too learned to hold my palm up. Through discussion on various forums it seems that this is a bad habbit to get into...and a hard one to break.

I did not know about lazy eights at the time. I would suggest as others, learn lazy eight, no palm up, whatever size plane you have...small planes are harder to break, large planes fly slower...your choice.

And DO learn over grass, not asphalt!!

George

[Steve Helmick]

A .35 combat model is perfect to learn inverted flight. It's what I used, at about 100mph. Only plane that didn't survive this learning process was an S-1 Ringmaster with an old Veco .29. Obviously, that wasn't the perfect plane to use. It got busted up, bigtime. Don't turn your palm up or palm down or any of that. Just remember that your next control input will be DOWN.  Steve