Lumcavok Course Curriculum

 

Problem: Avionics have advanced by leaps and bounds over the past years They have gotten so sophisticated in modern aircraft that the basic stick and rudder flying skills are becoming more and more a thing of the past. Basic flying skills are unfortunately being replaced by, and students are concentrating on learning the hardware and software of these avionics in lieu of learning the necessary skills that are so vital in many emergency situations.

Our Goal is to concentrate on flying the airplane. We do this by giving students:

A chance in an unlimited aerobatic airplane with a world aerobatic competitor to safely explore every aspect of the flight envelope that was ever dreamed about or feared of. Students will be able to carry out inputs to the extreme at safe altitudes with no imposed danger. Our instructor's goal is to instill confidence in our students and to overcome fear of the unknown by safely experiencing it.

Airplanes are capable of flying in all attitudes. 360 degrees of pitch and 360 degrees of roll. They don't know the sky from the earth. It is the job of the pilot to keep the airplane with the sky above. If the aircraft is capable of getting into any attitude, especially ones that are not planned, then shouldn't the pilot in command be capable of returning the aircraft to level flight?

Every pilot should experience an aircraft departing from the normal 60 degrees of bank and 30 degrees of pitch, and feel comfortable returning that aircraft to level flight should an inadvertent departure from basically level flight ever occur. Unfortunately way too many accidents have been associated with pilots inability to deal with an inadvertent attitude that they were unfamiliar with and wound up in, unplanned. With the extreme complexity of the aerodynamic forces that are imposed after a stall, simulators are unable to accurately train pilots for post stall aerodynamics. Actual aircraft experience is the only proven way to do this.

 

Student Weight and Height limitations 210lbs. 6'2"

 

 

SYLLABUS

 

Basic course:

• Take a student past the limits of 30/60 degrees of pitch/bank in order to teach and enable the student to return to level flight from attitudes beyond what is normal and common.
• Students will learn to recover from basic upright spins, incipient as well as fully developed. A spin endorsement will be provided (if needed).
• Teach the student how to lower the stall speed of an airplane significantly by changing the wing loading.
  
• The student will be taught and get to fly their first aerobatic maneuver, a Loop.

 

• 2 hours of ground school, a flight up to 1 hour in an Extra 300, and a full debriefing

• The goal in this course is to feel comfortable returning to level flight from attitudes never experienced before. To truly understand spins, and to know how to reduce the stall speed enough using the controls to avoid a stall spin accident in a way not commonly taught. This is not just a demonstration and sign off.

Price $995

 

The Full Experience:

Upset training course with aerobatics

Full upset training course includes:

• 8 hours of classroom training

• Minimum of 4 flights in an Extra 300 over 2-3 days.

 

This will include:

• Full understanding of the anatomy of the stall, and the anatomy of the spin. Students will get to enter and recover from basic spins, accelerated spins, flat spins, and at the students request, crossover spins.

• Emphasis on the identification and most importantly, the prevention of the above.

• Recovery from surprised upset attitude situations, including inverted, as well as the extremes of vertical up and vertical down (zero lift axis).

Introduction to aerobatics, including teaching and allowing the student to perform the following aerobatic maneuvers:

• Barrel Roll

• Aileron Roll

• Loop

• Hammer Head (Stall Turn)

 

After all of the above is completed at the student’s request any complex aerobatic maneuver can be demonstrated, such as gyroscopic tumbles (Lumcavoks), snap rolls, inverted spins, knife edge spins, torque rolls, etc..

One main goal of this course is to reduce or eliminate the fear in the back of many pilots minds as to what would happen if... In a completely safe environment where a student can have demonstrated to them or try on their own nearly any control input or combination of that has been a dark tunnel in the students mind.

The secondary goal is to bring the wonderful world of exceeding 60 degrees of bank and 30 degrees of pitch to the student, and hopefully get them to see and love the side of flying airplanes that so few pilots get to experience.

Price $3995

(the price of the basic course will be deducted if this course is taken subsequent to it. 1 less flight will be needed)