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Flying Challenge Cup Off to Great Start

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Key Takeaways:

  • The Flying Challenge Cup is a stick-and-rudder skills competition that has attracted over 1,400 registered pilots, students, and non-pilots.
  • Competitors are flying scenarios like Lazy 8s, Precision Landings, and Steep Turns using Redbird simulators at more than 80 participating flight schools.
  • The top 12 scorers will win a free trip to EAA AirVenture 2014 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for a live fly-off on July 30.
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It looks as though Flying’s stick-and-rudder skills competition will be fiercely contested as Redbird Flight Simulations reports that more than 1,400 pilots and non-pilots have registered to compete for a free trip to Oshkosh 2014.

So far three contest modules have been released for the Flying Challenge Cup, including Lazy 8s, Precision Landings and Steep Turns. Several hundred competitors have flown the scenarios, which are open to participants in three categories: pilots, students and non-pilots.

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