Let's talk P-13
I've finally had a chance to fly through P-13, and I have the following observations.
- It's a long schedule, and a power consuming one. It typically took me 7,5 minutes to complete, for reasons I can't figure out. The manouvers by themselves don't seem all that long. I even flew a battery flat (5000 mah) on my first try.
- The first point roll combo is fun, and the half/roll/half-roll combo is very cool to fly, and challenging to get it to look good. Love it.
- The top hat will be very strangely disproportionate. You have to have a straight line in the base for it to be a top hat and not an inverted humpty-bump, and in order to not fly too far out, it must be short-short. But the length of the upline must be really long to have enough height for the following spin. Or is that not a problem?
- The cuban eight, as pointed out to me by Ola Fremming, is extremely difficult, the problem being not the rolling, but to position the last 45 degree downline. Due to the second roll being downwind, it must have much faster rollrate in order to be completed in time for the downline to be centered. During my first attempt I proved him right, my second downline did not cross the first one - at all. How to remedy this? Cheat by rolling faster, or fly only during crosswind or calm...
- The figure 9 will break the high-level of your schedule. It should be started at mid-level, which is not possible since it comes after the square loop. We've already dubbed the '9 "Astronaut training manouver". You must fly a decent sized square loop, with proper radius in each corner, and a short straight on either side of the half-rolls, which means it will be big no matter how small you try to make it. The '9 should have been a split-s type manouver.
What are your thoughts?