Today Legacy Instructional Series is back with another dogfighting training video!

Exercise ID: DFM1-1 Spirals

Exercise Type: Combat Training

Exercise Map Type: Crusader

Exercise Player Requirement: Solo

Maneuver Featured: Spiral (other names: barrel roll, barrel yaw, helix, skidded roll)

Maneuver Difficulty: Intermediate

Maneuver Stability/Predictability Rating: Low

Purpose:

To practice the fundamental concept of using combined roll along with pitch, yaw, and/or strafe to maintain motion in a direction of flight while tracing a helical path.

Description:

Smooth, low jerk, accelerating, spiraling path toward an object or direction.

Execution:

Common Errors:

Using too much (or not enough) roll to keep up with pitch.

Demanding too fast/wide of a spiral, resulting in vector becoming uncontrolled, culminating in a “flat” aileron (axial) roll with zero defensive capability.

Doing too tight of a spiral, resulting in an axial roll.

Letting the reference point “wander” on the screen, resulting in an uncontrolled vector.

Credits:

Producer, Pilot: Vin

Test Pilots: Valk, Daniel40

Credits: Splooshie, Filanwizard

Part of the Legacy Instructional Series