Warped Wings Earning Stripes

  The Warped Wings R/C Club has a system for earning patches for different proficiency levels of flying.

The following is a description of each level.

NOVICE

This stripe will be awarded upon becoming a member of the Warped Wings.

SOLO

This stripe will be given to a novice when he or she can do the following, without the aid of an instructor.  Start their engine, taxi out to take off position, take off, trim the plane for straight and level flight, and land their plane on the mowed portion of the field in a safe manner consistently.  This must be witnessed and certified by one of the instructors

 PILOT

This patch will be awarded to a club member that has reached the level of Solo and can demonstrate the following maneuvers in one flight without the aid of an instructor.  Take off, do three consecutive loops, three consecutive axial rolls in one direction of the flight, three consecutive touch and goes on the field, then land back on the field, then demonstrate both left and right landing patterns.  This has to be witnessed and certified by an instructor.

Expert

This stripe will be awarded when a club member completes in an open fun fly with at least 10 or more competitors, and finishes in the top 10%.  Example with 19 competitors, you must win.  With 30 to 39 you can finish as low as third and so on.  You will have to certify these results with the word of an eye witness or a signed letter from the contest director.

INSTRUCTOR

Instructors for the club can only be chosen by the instructors.  Some of the qualities they will look for are, how they communicate with others, how they handle emergency flight situations, their judgment of when to fly and when not to and explain why or why  not, their ability to check out new aircraft before the first test flight, their ability to fly various types of airplanes, their ability to reason with and control the situation in the event of a mishap and misunderstanding people, their ability to reconstruct a mishap an use it as a learning experience for everyone involved, last of all their must be a need for more instructors.

Updated: 02/25/2008