Flying Upside Down

I just flew my first competition in the sportsman category. Finished 8th out of 13 pilots in that division (ahead of an Extra, two decathlons, and two GameBirds), not bad for a 118hp citabria. I was happy with my scores and met my goal of three clean runs through the more challenging sequences. Had a lot of fun and met some really great pilots.

I also got to take home hardware for my flying last year.

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USMCmech said:
3:32:00 is my final run. Flew my best run on the final flight and was happy with my scores.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t9JJaxUTf4
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Awesome, nice work! I'm not sure if this is in any way useful to your corner of the aviation world, but I remember both during flight school, as well as later during the TOPGUN course, I always had to remind myself to not think about or focus on what other people were doing......the grades of other classmates and how I might compare, etc ("grades" in the latter being pretty much nonexistent, but the threat of being kicked out was always existent until the bitter end). Seems a lot like this environment, though perhaps a lot less outwardly "competitive" in comparison to what you're doing. Point being, I focused on myself.......just improving myself and my flying every flight. Just like you're doing, working for a better personal best. I dig it, sounds fun!
 
///AMG said:
Awesome, nice work! I'm not sure if this is in any way useful to your corner of the aviation world, but I remember both during flight school, as well as later during the TOPGUN course, I always had to remind myself to not think about or focus on what other people were doing......the grades of other classmates and how I might compare, etc ("grades" in the latter being pretty much nonexistent, but the threat of being kicked out was always existent until the bitter end). Seems a lot like this environment, though perhaps a lot less outwardly "competitive" in comparison to what you're doing. Point being, I focused on myself.......just improving myself and my flying every flight. Just like you're doing, working for a better personal best. I dig it, sounds fun!
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Yeah, I was competing against myself at that stage. Going into Nationals, I was hopelessly outclassed in airplane but I was still happy with 3 clean runs trough the sportsman sequence.

Now that I have the Pitts I should be more competitive. I'll never have the talent and skill to challenge the guys who are really good at this kind of flying but I keep improving.
 
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