⚠️ Note: this content applies to French FFVL competitions only. It is written in English for convenience and educational purposes, as the format and figures are particularly valuable for learning and progression. It does not describe an international competition standard.
This page gathers the official figures selected for the French “Novice” dual-line individual category. The shapes are simple enough to start working on precision and control without entering the full international figure set.
If you come directly to this page, we suggest you take a look at our presentation of compulsory figures to better understand their role in competition - and how they can help you progress in flight.
Need help reading the figures? See the how to read FFVL novice figures page.
Description
The kite flies an infinity (a horizontal figure 8) over a large part of the window.
Entry / Exit
The IN and OUT are given at the same point, corresponding to the figure’s center of gravity.
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite flies along a horizontal axis parallel to the ground. On reaching the center of the window, it flies a large circle (large diameter) and comes back to the circle’s entry point. It then resumes its horizontal line parallel to the ground (in the same alignment as before the circle).
Entry / Exit
The IN and OUT are given on either side of the window, at equal distance from its center (on which the circle is based).
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite flies along a horizontal axis parallel to the ground. Once past the center of the window, it flies a large square (upward) before returning to the horizontal axis parallel to the ground.
Entry / Exit
The IN and OUT are given on either side of the window, at equal distance from its center (around which the square is flown).
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite flies along a horizontal axis parallel to the ground. Shortly before reaching the center of the window, it makes a right angle to dive toward the ground. Before reaching the ground, it makes a half-turn, then climbs back to the same height as before the dive. After another right angle, it resumes its flight parallel to the ground.
Entry / Exit
The IN and OUT are given on either side of the window, at equal distance from its center (around which the test tube is flown).
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite flies along a horizontal axis parallel to the ground. Once past the center of the window, it flies a large octagon before returning to the horizontal axis parallel to the ground.
Entry / Exit
The IN and OUT are given on either side of the window, at equal distance from its center (around which the octagon is flown).
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite takes off from the ground and climbs perpendicular to the ground. At a certain height, it makes a right angle to start a rectangle, then, back at the rectangle’s starting point, resumes its course toward the top of the window.
Entry / Exit
The IN is given just before take-off and the OUT once the kite has clearly resumed its climb along the central axis of the window.
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite flies an 8.
Entry / Exit
The IN and OUT are given at the same point, corresponding to the figure’s center of gravity.
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite starts the figure descending, perpendicular to the ground. After a right-angle turn, it covers, along a horizontal axis parallel to the ground, the distance to the center of the window, then flies a fairly large circle before resuming its course, parallel to the ground, to the figure’s exit point.
Entry / Exit
Description
The kite takes off from the ground and climbs perpendicular to the ground. Very soon, it starts a first small infinity (horizontal 8), then resumes its climb at the point where it left it. After a short climb, it flies a second small infinity (mirroring the first), of the same proportions as the first, then resumes its course for good toward the top of the window.
Entry / Exit
The IN is given just before take-off and the OUT once the kite has clearly resumed its climb along the central axis of the window.
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite takes off from the ground and makes a long climb perpendicular to the ground. After a tight half-turn (on the wing tip), it starts a descent parallel to the previous climb. Shortly before reaching the ground, it makes a right angle that sends it along a horizontal line parallel to the ground.
Entry / Exit
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite takes off from the ground and climbs perpendicular to the ground. Fairly soon, it makes a right angle so as to fly parallel to the ground. After covering a good distance, it makes a fairly tight upward half-turn (almost on the wing tip), then crosses the whole window to make a second tight upward half-turn, mirroring the first. Crossing the center axis of the window, it makes another right angle to resume its climb.
Entry / Exit
The IN is given just before take-off and the OUT once the kite has clearly resumed its climb along the central axis of the window.
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite climbs diagonally (at 45°). When it crosses the center axis of the window, it makes a right angle to descend with the same slope as its climb. It then makes a 45° angle to return toward its starting point along a straight line parallel to the ground.
Entry / Exit
Tips / Key elements
Description
Starting from a horizontal line parallel to the ground, the kite quickly makes a 45° angle toward the top of the window, then a 90° angle downward. After descending twice the distance of its first climb, it makes another right angle upward and again covers the same distance as the first climb, coming back in line with its original path. After a final 45° angle, it resumes its course parallel to the ground on the same line as at the start of the figure.
Entry / Exit
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite flies along a horizontal axis parallel to the ground. Once past the center of the window, it flies a large square (downward) before returning to the horizontal axis parallel to the ground.
Entry / Exit
The IN and OUT are given on either side of the window, at equal distance from its center (around which the square is flown).
Tips / Key elements
Description
The kite takes off from the ground and makes a long climb perpendicular to the ground. It then makes a series of right-angle turns to draw a kind of C in the sky.
Entry / Exit
The IN is given just before take-off and the OUT once the kite is at the same distance from the center of the window as its starting position.
Tips / Key elements
Last updated: — new translation of the fifteen figures, fixing several misread instructions
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