I think everyone has made good points... I like the idea of extra points for time on tow... I know it would be a lot harder to keep my Sharon on tow for the same time as my AvA...
I'm just bored with TD I guess... Anyone want a Sharon? PS... This last weekend we should of had one of the best 2 day Contest in NorCal. The Gamblers Gala, hosted by the Sierra Silent Soarers and CD'd by none other than the Great Lee Cox... Unfortunately it was canceled... I think I speak for a lot of pilots when I say I'm sorry that it was not held and hope it comes back next year... :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig, What is with messing around with winch time???? All minimizing winch time does is make planes go up faster, and have them built like composite bullets. Why not do something simple, like take the weight of the plane, mulitply it by seconds and get a max time you have to fly?? We once talked about this , way back, when people used to fly scale, or really stand off scale in the LSF tounaments and SSOAR NAT (that dates me!) Pilots often chose unique projects that could not compete with the "slicker" ships. A Schul Glider had a L/D of 15: or so. If you took the L/D and multiply it by say 10 seconds, that meant that your max time had to be 150 seconds (2.5 minutes), which was reasonable for draggy, early gliders. If you had a Kestral, with an L/D of 36:1, that meant 360 seconds, or 6 minutes. That was reasonable for a slick glider. That kept scale gliders of all vintages competitive. So...let me ask this: What happens if the launch is a discus launch of a 100" glider???? NO TOW TIME!!!! Think about it. If you know you can hand launch into a thermal, why loose 4-5 seconds every time???? Hello JW!! Personally, any time you try to do this stuff, it always ends up with a conclusion no one wants to fly! Chris > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [RCSE] Contest idea....Time on tow penalty for TD? > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, July 15, 2008 6:03 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], soaring@airage.com > In a message dated 07/14/2008 8:21:54 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After watching the World F3J I had an idea for a contest... > Incorporate the time penalty on tow that they have in F3J but in a TD format. > You would have a timer at each winch who would time your launch and write > that time down on your card... For example if it were a 10 min task and you > towed for 6 sec the best time you could get would be a 9:54 even though you > flew a > perfect 10... Or even better... Double the time on tow penalty, so if it was > a 6 sec tow the best time you could get would be 9:48. Seems to me it would > throw more strategy and fun into a normal TD contest > Suggestions ? Comments? > Craig > ________________________________________________ > > Having read the other replies, I think the solution would be to have a device > that timed the length of time the winch motor was on for the launch and > deduct that from the score. That would allow a woody to tap up to the top and > take > their time doing so without incurring the "time on tow" penalty. The penalty > would then be for "time using power on tow." > > Bill Wingstedt > > **************Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live music > scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! > (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus00050000000112) > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and > unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. > Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in > text format
