The Fixed Wing Bronze Safety Schedule.
- Flying Standard Take Off, Circuit And Flypast Procedure Turn Circuit And Procedure Turn
- Circuit Rectangular Circuit And Land Getting It Together Dead Stick Landing
If you've carried out the practice exercises in our Aircraft Training, then with just a little practice you will be capable of flying the manoeuvres required to pass the Bronze Safety Certificate.
The "schedule" required is:
- Checking out your model.
- Starting the engine.
- Taking the model to the runway.
- Taking off.
- Executing one complete rectangular circuit.
- Executing a procedure turn.
- Executing a complete circular circuit, starting and ending in front of you.
- Executing a procedure turn.
- Executing a complete circular circuit, starting and ending in front of you.
(This will be in the opposite direction to the initial circular circuit.) - Executing one complete rectangular circuit for a landing approach.
- Landing.
- Deadstick Landing.
- Recovering the model and returning to the pits.
- You will then be asked a few simple questions relating to the Safety Code (which should be second nature by now!).
At a convenient opportunity, a Bronze Safety Examination will be arranged for you. If you can safely carry out the above schedule, you will pass! This test is not a race nor is it a test of precision aerobatics. It is a check to see that you can safely fly your model without endangering yourself or others. The Examiners are not like the ogres from the D.V.L.C. - they are just fellow fliers who have been assessed themselves as being sufficiently experienced to carry out this test. Remember that the Examiners want you to pass as much as you do!
Once you have completed all this, you will be a qualified safe flier, and just as with learning to drive, the more you practice, the better you will become. Don't think that there is nothing else to do after the Bronze - there's the Silver - and the Gold - and helicopters - and gliders - and Competitions - and the Nationals - and the four-engined Lancaster with retracts and bomb doors - and.........