RE: Simple training quaifications
Ummm.. where does it say the "suggested skills" have to be performed to the precision of an FAI Pattern competitor?
The idea is... can the guy keep the plane reasonably level... or does he do a big up and down zig-zag which chases the rabbits out of the bushes 400 ft below and the buzzards out from 400 ft above where he was supposed to be? (does he fly the plane or react to the lane and overcorrect like hell... letting the plane fly him?)
Taxiing... is he reasonably able to make one big figure 8 on the runway? Or when trying to simply do a straight line does he end up 100 yards off the runway?
If doing a loop as a check... does he make something that looks somewhat round... or is it a figure-9 with the end being 10 ft under ground? (they called that a "9-G dive" in the 1930's... because every modeler knew that no FF model could survive 9 G's.)