Why, you are just a busy beaver these days are you not..
Thanks for taking a peek at the LSF site, apparently many do not.
The answers to the questions that you have outlined below will be covered in the pilots briefing for each event.
1. This landing task will not be as stringent in terms of zero flight scores like last year.
The fence is to catch the plane.
2. What is your flight score if you land out of bounds in any contest?
3.RES and NOS will not have a different landing task,
This task was designed by one of our CD's after input from the contestants from last years NATS.
We the LSF start the planning for the next years NATS in October.
The task is designed to get a quick measurement, and get out, so that another potential pilot can use the spot.
This has been a problem in the past , especially for RES and NOS on Saturday, because, for some reason the contestants are not
motivated to the point, where we "might" get 3 rounds of each, if we are lucky...
Hopefully, we can get 4 in this year...ergo RES and NOS will fly the landing task as described, and approved by the AMA, as a deviation.
The idea, is to get as many flights per person, as possible, again to impact contestant responses, to get more rounds in.
This is why, I am sure, that you and many others will show up at the check in point with airplane switched on ready to fly and a timer at your side ready to go....Right?
Thanks,
Jack Strother
LSF President
and
Acting Event Director
BTW...If anyone is interested in the Event Director or the Unlimited CD position, Please let me know..
At 10:24 AM 2/16/2003 -0600, Bob Johnson wrote:
I checked the LSF web site and read about the landing task for the 2003
Nats. As I studied the description, the following questions came to mind:
1- Is there any penalty incurred if an aircraft makes contact with or
penetrates the safety fence?
2- Am I correct in assuming that the penalty for going over the safety fence
is a zero flight score?
3- Since RES and Nostalgia both fly gliders with 'smooth bottoms', might it
be possible for us to use the 'old' landing line task if a majority of
entrants prefer it?
The Nats landing task can be found at
http://www.silentflight.org/NATS2003/Land_Task.html
Regards,
Bob Johnson
Fond du Lac, WI
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Jack Strother LSF President
Loveland, OH LSF 2948
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