INNOVA DISC FLIGHT RATING SYSTEM

Speed, Glide, Turn, and Fade can be used to rate various aspects of our disc's flight characteristics. These Flight Ratings can be used to compare our different disc models. Once you have thrown one of our disc models, you can use the flight rating numbers to compare it to any of our other disc models. Flight ratings are based on a right handed backhand throw (RHBH).

INNOVA Disc Flight Ratings are broken into four categories: Speed, Glide, High Speed Turn and Low Speed Fade.

Each of our discs has a distinct "personality" - the flight characteristics that make the disc unique. We have over 50 models to suit a wide range of players and their throwing techniques. Flight characteristics have been broken down into 4 general categories: Speed, Glide, Turn, and Fade.

On each of the disc pages, you will be presented with a graph of 4 numbers, like the one to the right. These are the disc's flight ratings. Each model has a unique set of ratings, but each can be compared relative to another. We have built in tabs on each page to better help you to navigate through our discs, faster, slower, more fade, more glide. Hopefully this will help serve as a road map to allow you to select the disc that is right for you. For more on what these numbers mean, refer to the graphic below.

The disc ratings are an average for the three different types of plastics, although the ratings most closely resemble the flight characteristics of the Champion plastic.

Discs Made With:

Champion plastic will retain their flight ratings characteristics for a longer period of time.

Pro plastic will start slightly less overstable and the driver models will have more glide.

DX plastic will start more overstable and with use will match the ratings. With continued use, the DX plastic will eventually become more understable than the ratings.

Stability is a description of the disc’s flight path.
Understable means a flight that turns right (for a RHBH thrower). Stable is a flight that doesn’t turn. Overstable refers to a flight that turns left (RHBH thrower). Understable discs are much more speed sensitive than stable or overstable discs. An understable disc will often fly stable to overstable at low speed. Beginners tend to throw discs at lower speeds.

Drivers are more pitch sensitive than Multi-purpose or Putt & Approach discs. Pitch refers to the nose up angle a disc is released with. Drivers thrown “nose up” or with an upward pitch will appear to fly more stable to overstable than they are actually rated. Beginning disc golfers tend to throw “nose up” shots.