I checked out the red bull site and saw some consistancy the below statement.
you know when a something is an 'intentional maneuver involving an abrupt change in an aircraft's attitude, or abnormal acceleration, not necessary for normal flight' and what isn't.
Particularly at the recovery from inverted flight on at least two occasions, I noticed quite a bit of, what looked like, "now which way from here?"
My dearly departed dear old dad, who I had the pleasure of checking out in the '47 and who used to fly around as many of our dear old dad's did, for purposes of aggression years ago, told me that a good flying display was,
1. Unpredictable,
2 Always precise,and
3, Forever safe.
Somehow the red bull display, on the video clip, was wanting at least in the first two of those regards.
I also have a question for DennisK,
I read somewhere some time ago, after whatching one of your videos that the aerobatic championships had a list of acceptable maneuvres, for want of a better description.
How do they arrive at those maneuvres? Say someone comes along with a new one, do they, for instance discuss with the applicant, how he might recover in the event of engine failure ? Or might he be allowed to include any maneuvre without discussion, in his freestyle element.
This could be conter-productive as many if not all of the judges may not have a shmick of the maneuvre, or its safety or complexity beforehand. Let alone the pilots skill or knowledge.
Therefore they would be ill equipped to judge it.
Having done gymastics at a reasonable competitive level as a juvenile, I am well familiar with - set routines which lay down maneuvres of a usually fairly moderate difficulty level - and feestyle routines which are expected to encompass maneuvres of a higher difficulty level.
all of which have to be completed with the correct finnesse, that is if you wish to finish in the finals of course.
cheers tet