Aerobatics, explained
48 guides to flying aerobatics, written by Maciej Kulaszewski: FAI Intermediate World Champion 2022, Polish National Champion 2026 in the Advanced class, FI(A) instructor with over 4,000 flight hours. All of it comes from flying the Extra 300L SP-EKS at Radom-Piastów (EPRP), Poland.
Planning your flight
Aerobatic Flight Near Warsaw: Extra 300L, 100 km From the City
The airfield, the drive, the packages and what a visit looks like.
Read →What Is an Aerobatic Flight? A Complete Guide
The definition, the figures, the limits and what separates it from a scenic flight.
Read →How Much Does an Aerobatic Flight Cost? Prices and What Drives Them
Full price list, what is included, and why an aerobatic hour costs what it does.
Read →How Long Does an Aerobatic Flight Last?
Ten or twenty minutes in the air, ninety on site, and why it is short.
Read →Sightseeing Flight vs Aerobatic Flight
Aircraft category, pilot rating and load factors, side by side.
Read →How to Buy an Aerobatic Flight Voucher, Step by Step
Choosing a package, paying from abroad and how the date gets arranged.
Read →The Best Time of Year for an Aerobatic Flight
Month by month, morning or afternoon, and what moves a slot.
Read →Before you fly
Is an Aerobatic Flight Safe? Risk and Preparation
What the risk is and what specifically reduces it.
Read →What +6G Does to Your Body
Positive and negative G, warning signs and the role of the briefing.
Read →What an Aerobatic Flight Feels Like
The stages of a visit and possible sensations in the cockpit.
Read →Who Can Fly Aerobatics: Age, Weight and Health
Age 13, 110 kg, about 195 cm, and the conditions that rule a flight out.
Read →How to Prepare for Your First Aerobatic Flight
What to eat, what to wear and what people wish they had known.
Read →What to Bring to an Aerobatic Flight: A Checklist
A short checklist: what to bring, what is provided, what stays behind.
Read →Ten Rules Before an Aerobatic Flight
Ten things decided before the engine starts.
Read →Weight and Aerobatic Flying: Why the Limit Is 110 kg
Where the 110 kg limit comes from and why it cannot be waived.
Read →Aerobatics, Blood Pressure and the Heart
What G does to circulation and which conditions rule out a flight.
Read →What Participants Say Afterwards
The patterns in what people say afterwards, including the complaints.
Read →Gifts and groups
An Aerobatic Flight as a Gift: What to Know Before You Buy
Which package suits whom and the limits that catch buyers out.
Read →An Aerobatic Flight as a Gift for Him
Why it works, which package to pick and what to check first.
Read →An Aerobatic Flight as a Gift for Her
Aerobatics has never been a men-only sport. Packages and practicalities.
Read →A Milestone Birthday Present That Is Not Another Watch
Thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. Matching the package to the person.
Read →A Wedding Anniversary Present You Both Remember
Couples fly one after the other with the pilot.
Read →An Aerobatic Flight for a Stag Party
Group logistics and the two rules that decide whether it works.
Read →Aerobatic Flights for Companies: Incentives and Team Days
Group flights or an air display: scope and participation requirements.
Read →The aircraft
The Extra 300L: The Aeroplane Behind the Flight
Engine, structure, certification category and the history of SP-EKS.
Read →Extra 300L vs Zlin 50 vs Pitts S-2: Three Aerobatic Classics Compared
Monoplane against biplane, and what it means from the back seat.
Read →Which Aircraft Can Legally Fly Aerobatics?
Certification category, not horsepower, decides what is legal.
Read →Extra Flugzeugbau: The Factory Behind the Aeroplane
Walter Extra built an aeroplane to win, and defined a class.
Read →Aerobatic Aircraft Compared: What Flies in Competition Today
What flies at each competition level and what separates the types.
Read →Piston vs Jet: Why Aerobatics Is Flown in Propeller Aircraft
Why competition aerobatics is flown in propeller aircraft.
Read →For pilots
How to Become an Aerobatic Pilot: From PPL to FCL.800
From PPL through 40 hours in command to the FCL.800 rating.
Read →Aerobatic Manoeuvres Explained: Loop, Roll, Hammerhead and the Rest
Loop, roll, flick, Immelmann, split-S, hammerhead, inverted flight.
Read →Aerobatics vs Simulator: What a Simulator Cannot Give You
What transfers from a simulator and what cannot.
Read →Training Between Flights: What to Do When You Are Not Flying
What to do with the 8,700 hours a year you are not flying.
Read →How to Memorise an Aerobatic Sequence: Five Methods
Five methods, and the one that survives an unknown programme.
Read →Preparing for Your First Aerobatic Competition
Eight things worth doing before your first contest.
Read →Sport, history and people
How Aerobatic Competitions Work: Categories, Judging and the Box
Categories, Aresti notation, the box and how judges score.
Read →The 2026 Season: Two National Titles on SP-EKS
Two national titles, both flown on the aeroplane that carries participants.
Read →A Short History of Aerobatics: From Kunstflug to the World Championships
From Nesterov and Pegoud in 1913 to the modern championship structure.
Read →The History of Polish Aerobatics
The aeroclub system and why it keeps producing champions.
Read →Why SP-EKS Carries the Badge of No. 303 Squadron
Why a modern competition aeroplane carries a 1940 squadron badge.
Read →My Path to Aerobatics, and What I Would Tell Someone Starting Now
The plateaus nobody mentions, and what I tell pilots who ask.
Read →Who Flies With Me: From Photographers to Astronaut Candidates
Photographers, engineers, teenagers and one astronaut candidate.
Read →Air-to-Air Photography: Flying as a Camera Platform
Flying as a camera platform, and what a photographer needs to know.
Read →Booking an Aerobatic Display for an Event
Prices, lead time and what the organiser has to arrange.
Read →Getting here
Getting to Radom-Piastow From Anywhere in Poland
Drive times from seventeen cities, trains and nearest airports.
Read →Things to Do Near Warsaw When You Are Coming for the Flight
Building a day around the flight instead of driving straight back.
Read →Ready to fly?
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