Flight Skills
Assisted Beginners(5-15 minutes), with throttle remotely controlled by instructor:
- Low taxi neutral and slow forward
- High taxi neutral, forward and turns
- Deep water takeoff
- Forward flight and turns
- Landing practice
(15-60 minutes), with own throttle control:
- Low taxi neutral and slow forward
- High taxi neutral, forward and turns
- Deep water (floating) takeoff
- Forward flight and turns
- Landing practice
- Landing in waist-deep water
Intermediates(1-10 hours): Beginners skills, plus...
- Standing takeoff in waist-deep water
- Fast forward translation
- Fast turns
- Slaloms (precisely controlled 90° turns alternating between left and right)
- Figure-8 (precisely controlled 180° turns alternating between left and right)
- Vertical climbs and descents
- Hovers at up to 20 feet
- 90° yaw turns to either side while hovering at up to 20 feet
- Descending 180 (From hover, roll into 180° turn and forward translation)
- Walking/running on water
- One-handed flight (fly briefly using right hand only)
- Pick-up (pick up floating objects on the water with left hand)
Advanced(minimum 10 hours flight time): Intermediate skills, plus...
- Donuts (tight radius circles)
- Slanted donuts (donuts with one end of circles higher than the other)
- Hands-free (in high taxi mode and at slow speed only; brief flight with hands off)
- High hovers at 25-30 feet
- Penthouse express (accelerate vertically from water to 30 feet)
- Sea otter (short surface travel on back rest)
- Sea otter flip (flip 180° from Sea otter to forward travel)
- Brick wall (from forward translation, come to abrupt stop with reverse nozzles)
- Level approach dock landing (approach dock only inches above, then touchdown)
- Dock takeoff (standing on dock, increase thrust until gentle liftoff and steer out to water)
- Leaping takeoff (similar to dock takeoff, but coordinate with leg leaping action)
Instructors(minimum 15 hours flight time): Expert skills, plus ...
- Training skills
- Basic equipment maintenance
- Life saving & CPR
Banned maneuvers(due to high risk to pilot and/or equipment):
- Vertical takeoffs from shallow water,
shore, dock, boat, etc.- Vertical landings to shallow bottom,
shore, dock, boat, etc.- Drops (rapid descent with little or no power)
- Fall arrest (arresting a drop by gunning the throttle)
- Flying backwards
- Underwater travel (special equipment and high underwater visibility required)
- Yaw turns beyond 90° in each direction
- Summersaults and tumbles
- Other unstable and high risk maneuvers
via jetlev-flyer.com
