spurry
Veteran
Location: Wolverhampton/Leeds/ Dumfries, UK
| Totally agree with Augusto's posts.  Work on your timing first to get the flips so the rotor disk constantly flips in the same direction. Then you can work on rotating the flipping direction.
Other than increasing cyclic at a particular point to 'shift' the pirouetting flip or the chaos in a certain direction, I find thottle/pitch management important to be able to control the whole manouver. After increasing cyclic of your desired direction,depending on how far/fast I want to travel, I would also add a little extra throttle to the flip but in the direction I want to move. This is more important for when you do piro-flippin' loops or fly around doing constant piroeutting flips.
Check out this page for some of Pete's vids. I found his piroeutting flips were text book. We can't talk about this too much, that's why the search results are poor. Augusto's posts are the best you'll find in describing the manouver, everything else will have to be learned first hand.
James |
while piroflipping is when people let it rest for a while while in the horizontal disc portion of the flip whether it's right side up or inverted for about two full pirouettes and then continue with the piroflip. They let it rest a bit and then apply upwards momentum so that they can do the piroflip while hanging between upwards pushes. That makes the piroflip a lot easier but also a lot uglier. Doing a piroflip where the flipping of the disc has a constant rate of flip is a completely different animal. It's obvious that there has to be upwards momentum applied but people need to learn how to make it happen without stopping the flipping portion to regain momentum. There's a world of pitch management that happens in that small amount of time.
