Jeff, I apologize for not being clear about the concept for a "Competition Equivalent Task." On rereading my posts, it might not be clear to someone who is not in my head that the intent of this concept is to more or less be the equivalent of an easily understood task and the cornerstone of the three ten minute flights in one hour was to recreate the requirement that you must fly into conditions that you cannot choose at the time you fly. One of the innate problems in my proposal as that I mentally thought three flights in one hour would leave three 10 minute windows between the flights which would probably leave a 4-6 minute practical window to launch subsequent flights. Not being versed at higher math, it took me a while to puzzle out that three ten minute flights in one hour would leave two 15 minute windows between flights, leaving 9-11 "practical" minutes to allow the pilot time to "pick his air." In my view this is entirely too long a period to recreate the circumstances typical in contests. I don't know for sure, but I'll accept your assessment that this would simply result in a turkeyshoot.
I hope you can appreciate that nearly everything that is being proposed is more for conceptual illustration than for final implementation. That being said, I have refined the illustration and attached a sample of rules which might define a "Competition Equivalent Task". Like the illustrations before it, it is not being proposed as the "final word" in ideas -- simply an idea to stimulate the thought glands. p.s. While I do not necessarily place the current LSF rules beside our Constitution, we in this sport are not necessarily best served by being bound by one set of rules. In theory, the Constitution serves the needs of all of our citizens equally well -- that is the genious of our founding fathers. I'm not sure that the LSF rules as they now sit serve all of our community equally well. And I'm absolutely certain that any product which might result from all this bafflegab will ultimately strengthen the soaring community as a whole. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Competition Alternative Task Rules.pdf | |Download: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=986299 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- 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
