Safety

Safety

The practice of HLAerobatics is not without risk, just like any activity in life. In the Hand Launch Aerobatics LAB, the details of safety are presented at length. The LAB contains a step by step presentation of how to build and fly HLAerobatics SAFELY, and this is extremely important. Without attentention to the details of safety, HLAerobatics can not exist, but instead becomes merely an unsustainable slam-fest of the ignorant and ill-informed, and a law suit(s) waiting to happen.

When you decide to build a model especially for HLAerobatics, you will need to carefully read and fully understand the Shop Safety section of the LAB. When your are finished building your model, you will need to carefully read and fully understand the Flight Safety section of the LAB. The Learning section of LAB will help you progress safely through the basics from first flight to more advanced levels of Hand Launch Aerobatics. You should NEVER EVEN ATTEMPT HLAerobatics without the correct model, a complete understanding of the above sections of LAB, and a membership in the Academy of Model Aeronautics, at 5151 E. Memorial Drive, Muncie, Indiana, 47302 or telephone 1-765-287-1256, www.modelaircraft.org.

Hand Launch Aerobatics IS NOT a careless, wreckless or hap-hazard hack-and-slash approach to radio controlled flying. Instead, it is a carefully though out and well planned practice of maximum human and flight vehicle performance. The Art and Science of HLAerobatics have philosophical foundations in a quest for excellence. This quest requires full attention to detail, including the safety of building an flying the models used in the practice. This is not an activity that any hack stick-flicker can claim as their own. Taking an average stock-built RC kit out to slam around and bounce off of the ground does not qualify a person as an HLAerobatic participant. It is nowhere near that simple. Decades of developmental effort have brought HLAerobatics to where it is today, and that effort must be honored, respected, and acknowleged by anyone wishing to join the activity.

Click on a file name in the list below to see a low resolution picture or down load a short Safety video clip. An explanation of each clip is given before the option to down load. These clips have nothing in particular to do with Hand Launch Aerobatics, but were filmed at flying sites where the HLAerobatics camera crew just happened to be at the time, purely by coincidence. Really. Details of Safety for both the workshop and the flying site can be found at LAB in the Shop Safety and Flight Safety sections, respectively. For web site feedback, contact the Site Admin at SiteAdmin. Be sure to leave you e-mail address if you would like a response.

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