Here is a question for all of you instructors! After a student is checked out on his trainer and is gaining confidence in basic aerobatics and capable of precise flying (figure eights, spot landings etc..) and is interested in one day competing in sport aerobatics. What sort of training regime would you suggest. PLEASE don't tell me just go out and have fun!!!! I'm going to do that whether I have a plan or not.

What I am looking for are the building blocks that will allow me to build my confidence and my flying ability in a planned and relatively controlled manner where I will see my progress as the years go on.

I do understand that a local guy is great for that and I am taking all of the local advice to heart. Our club has some great pilots and I am learning a lot from them. BUT we have very few regulars that have ever competed and that's what I am looking for somebody that HAS competed and placed in competition "How did you start and build up your abilities to get to successfully compete??"

If someone can point me towards a training syllabus of sorts that I can use in conjunction with the help of the local instructors that will improve my flying abilities on the plane that I have now (telemaster 40) and the planes I plan to build in the future. So that one day I would have a chance in competition I would appreciate it.

Thanks
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