Jeff Steifel Wrote: > Actually the ESL is home to some very top pilots. > Tom Kiesling, Mike Lachowski, Josh Glaab, Phil Barnes... And other good > > fliers. > Tom is a landing machine. > And Joe and Larry would have tough competition with Tom. All three are > > in the top echelon. > > I know that there have been many contests where Tom has been off max by > > peanuts. > And the Same goes for Mike, Josh, and Phil. It just depends on who and > > what kind of day. > Then there are days where they are less than accurate but good enough > to > win.
I sincerely hope nobody out there has construed anything I have said as being demeaning to top pilots outside of California. This thread is not about who's Level V is bigger than who's else's Level V. I really doubt that there is much difference in the level of skill at the top of the sport -- in fact that was implicit in the abbreviated analysis I furnished. It happened that SC2 is the only online resource I could find that had a complete year of spreadsheet friendly contest results. Lacking better information, I analyzed it on the assumption that it (a) would be a pretty representative starting point for defining performance at the top everywher and (b) it would be a pretty representative starting point for studying the likely distribution of scores below the top (especially in the top 50%). As I said before, I would welcome similar results from other leagues. As long as the results contain spreadsheet friendly tabulated data for each flight of each round including raw flight time, landing and a description of the task, they can be evaluated in the same fashion as the SC2 data pretty easily. Don -- 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
