\"I DON'T GET THE 3 FLIGHTS IN 1 HOUR. THE LSF PROHIBITS THE TD PARTS FROM OCCURRING IN THE SAME DAY FOR A SIMILAR REASON, THE AIR CAN BE GREAT AND A 1 HOUR TIME FRAME SIMPLY MEANS YOU CAN BE FLYING IN GREAT AIR. THAT'S NOT HARD!!!. IF THE AIR IS GOOD IT IS EASY. ALSO LANDING ON AN L4 TAPE WITHOUT THE NERVES OF COMPETITION IS EASY. SO 3 FLIGHTS WITH LANDINGS IN 1 HOUR TO ME ARE QUITE EASY AND DON'T REPRESENT A CHALLENGE.\"
I've stated elsewhere that there is no exact equivalent to competition. This alternative proposal is simply that. For those who want the precise challenge of competition there is only one way to get it. The three flights constitute one task. This task must be repeated six times on separate days. The air can be great all day long or it can cycle through every few minutes or anything in between. Another comment on this thread voiced your same concern. If the powers that be believe that lift is likely to be more or less uniform during the one hour period, the requirement can be for three flights to be flown at some other *specified* interval. The point here is to require the pilot to fly in air and at times not of his choosing -- more or less like competition. If you think the task is easy, demonstrate it to yourself by going out and flying the task six times with a 2350 score each time. (50 points from perfection -- I have researched as best I can the kind of scores that win the bigger competitions around the country and I believe a 2350 in this event will put you in the money most of the time -- if I am wrong, please correct me). Let me know when your tasks done -- if you can stand the boredom :) I PERSONALLY DON'T SEE THAT AS A VALID SET OF CHALLENGES. TO ME THIS IS A WATERED DOWN ACHEIVEMENT PROGRAM THAT DOESN'T CHALLENGE ANYONE EXCEPT FOR THE 8 HOUR SLOPE. I'M NOT IMPRESSED. If this should be the final form of the tasks and you are not impressed, don't do it. You may be correct in your assessment that it won't challenge anyone -- the few times I have ventured out of the sticks to the real contests in your world I haven't seen many scores (non-normalized) which are this good. For those who are not familiar with the AMA tasks a 2350 point score would require three flights with perfect 10 minute 0 second times and three landings averaging within 5 1/2 feet if the spot or three perfect spot landings and three flights landing within 2 seconds of the target time or some intermediate combination of flight time precision and flight landing precision). As an alternative, you could increase the points required to increase the difficulty. (It is noteworthy that the result for many of the SC2 events reflect a runway landing -- if this is the AMA L5 landing it awards full landing points for hitting a 5 meter by 5 meter square target). -- dharban ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dharban's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=31927 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=567627 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
