Darren,
Looking good. You made some improvements over the last one. As you have probably noticed, staying in the box can be harder than doing the sequence! As Bill mentioned, you're spending a good bit of time between figures. There's no requirement for this, but in general, you want an even rhythm to your sequence. But by far, box position trumps this rhythm I mention, which may or may not even affect your presentation score, which is an overall (subjective) impression of your whole flight, and not nearly as important as the scores for each figure. Stay in the box first, then work on presentation. Between figures, you should always drive across the box as long as you need for box position regardless. As Bill mentioned, this can be affected by whether you're going upwind or downwind. But be careful not to spend too little time between figures. You want to give at least a couple seconds between figures for the judges to figure out a score and call it to the recorder.
You can do opposing wing wags before figure 1 as you did, but it's more traditional to do them in the same direction. But it really doesn't matter. Capping off the 45 upline, you didn't float as long as before, but I think you could still tighten this up by pushing over at a slower speed. If this causes too long of a 45 line, just enter slower. What speeds are you entering the upline and then pushing over? It also looks like you are pushing over to cruise flight attitude after the 45 up. In general, when capping off a 45 line such as this, you should be slow enough that only a 30 degree or so pitch change should be needed, given that your speed after pushing over should be slow enough that you are flying at an attitude noticeably nose higher than what you'd see in cruise flight. Not sure if your attitude looked like this because you pitched over too far and sunk a little, or that you still had a good bit of speed. In any case, focus on your altimeter as your cap off the 45 all the way to the spin, to make sure you don't settle.
In my experience, spin entry in RVs can be hard to get clean and consistent. You definitely didn't force the entry, but it appeared the plane rolled about 90 degrees before any noticeable yaw developed. Again, it's hard to do consistently, but you want simultaneous nose drop, yaw, and roll. Do you always spin to the right? Different planes can have different spin characteristics depending on the direction. The Pitts for example, enters a spin more crisply to the left, but naturally spins at a steadier rate to the right. A spin to the right will be a little more nose down than a spin to the left due to propellor gyroscopics. Play around with entries in both directions. You can also experiment with aileron inputs in both directions (momentary or continuous) to get cleaner entries and/or control the rotation better. Every airplane is different and you just have to play with it. Some airplanes tend to break into the spin, and then slow down or hang up after a half turn or so. In this case, and depending on the airplane, the rotation can be smoothed out by unloading the stick very slightly after a half turn or so. In yours, it appears the opposite is the case...that it breaks off slowly, then snaps very quickly into a significantly higher rotation rate. Again, try playing with aileron inputs to see if you can smooth this out. But this is "style" value only. The hard judging criteria is on the entry and recovery/downline, not on evenness, or rate of spin rotation...unless of course the spin momentarily stops completely. It's a little hard to tell your pitch attitude, but since I didn't see a significant pitchover as the spin stopped, I assume you are still positive on the downline. You just need some ground critiquing to get this set. Learn what vertical lines up and down look like by looking at your wingtip, and glance at it every time you stop a spin to see if you've nailed it.
You floated the top of the Half-Cuban much better, and actually drew an inverted line before the roll. You'll still need some ground critiquing to ensure the 5/8 loop before the roll is round. Before and after the roll, I think you're spending the minimum amount of time needed to show the judges that you're actually drawing a line. But it appears that the duration of your 45 line before and after the roll is the same. This may result in a "long after" (the roll) call from the judges. If you can hold the 45 inverted line just a moment longer it should be just about perfect. But if what you're doing now
looks even from the ground, that's all that matters. I can't tell much about the accuracy of your 45 line (whether it's steep or shallow) from the video, so you'll need help from the ground for this.
One thing you can do to make your flying present better for the judges is to set and break your lines a little more crisply. For example, during the half-cuban, about 10 degrees before reaching the inverted 45 attitude, accelerate your pull a bit to accentuate the stop on the 45 line. But keep in mind you don't want to accelerate your pull so soon as to make it appear that you are pinching or "segmenting" the looping portion. This technique makes the figure look crisper and also makes it more obvious to the judges when you have set your line, so that they can better judge your line lengths. The same concept for breaking a line - make a quick (but smooth) stick movement to break the line, then steady around the radius of the pull to the next line.
The loop looks better, but appears you still need to accelerate your pull more at the bottom to keep the last quarter round. It also appeared you may have segmented it over the top, meaning a section of the loop deviated from round. Looked like the pitch rate slowed down for a moment and may have been a little uneven. Hard to do much more critiquing via video on this figure. Just need some ground critiquing.
The turn looked good. Looked like you may have been using less than full aileron rolling into the turn. Most people take advantage of full roll rate here for crispness, but there is no judging criteria related to roll rate as long as you roll in at the same rate that you roll out, which you did. Not necessarily any reason to change this.
Roll still looks pretty good. I can see that you pulled the nose up slightly before rolling to cheat a little.
Judges might see that. RV's have a good enough roll rate that negative G exposure during a true level roll is minimal. Try rolling from level flight next time. You can make a very slight nose up pull, but integrate this with the application of aileron so that the judges don't see a pitch up before the roll starts. I can see a noticeable change in roll rate during the last quarter of the roll compared to the roll rate passing through inverted. If you watch the video, you'll see that the roll rate increases during the last quarter of the roll. Remember what I mentioned about roll rate speeding up when rudder in the same direction as the aileron is re-introduced? This requires a slight reduction in aileron. But honestly, roll rate deviations are the last thing judges will pick up on when grading a roll. Mostly they are looking to see that you didn't climb, settle or "dish" (nose pulled off heading). There's a concept called "load shedding", meaning the judges can only concentrate on so much, and that some things can slip by. You can actually use this to your advantage in some ways.
There's a whole other side to this competition stuff that involves things you can get away with, things you can cheat to your advantage, and also things that you might NOT necessarily want to fly perfectly in order to make them
look perfect.
Oh, and do two wing wags at the end of the sequence.
Tighten up that box position, and I think you'll be in great to shape to put up some nice flights at the contest.
