You guys don't have to believe me... I had a tough time believing it myself. But one of the arts of cross country flying is keeping the model in the correct location in relation to the vehicle - virtually directly overhead. The reason for this is to maintain visual. I've seen the guys in Muncie flying CC at close to 4,000 ft off the tug tows(according to the pics), and they weren't even close to what Joe used to do.
I was serious about not enjoying CC due to the constant extreme eyesight checks. Let's assume as much as a 10% error in the telemetry watch - That's still over 7500 ft. Our little td models are fairly easily visible from a front perspective up to a mile... why do you have such a tough time buying 8500 ft straight overhead? And that's with about a 13 inch chord and flat black bottoms... Give me a pic sometime and an Insanity (nowhere near the size of a CC model - about 20% smaller), and I'll prove it. hugs, D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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
