Martin, this not about winning or whomping some other part of the country. Its all about having fun, possibly making a new friend or two, an heavens forbid, learn a little bit more about SMOM.
Here in the Detroit area the weather at the end of May could be very good or very bad and guess what ? We don't care. We are ready for some fun. ARE YOU ???. Regards, dave Corven. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Martin Usher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A nice idea but we did one last year and our club cleaned up. Obviously > we think this is because we're just superior pilots but it might also > have something to do with the flying conditions at our field. If the > lift is poor -- it happens -- then we will have to work at the flight > times but if is medium to good then we get people cruising around for > extended flights (one or two seem to be able to do an hour or so without > much problem but I reckon 25..40 minutes is more typical of the pack). > > This isn't about bragging, its trying to get the contest more even > because what's a true achievement in one part of the country is run of > the mill in another. There's probably not time to devise some exotic > task and scoring scheme to try to level the different locales for this > contest but in the future we may have to figure it out on spreads....how > flight times vary across the field of entrants for a particular club, > that sort of thing. > > (BTW -- I really like the plane. It might be a small chunk-o-foam but > with if its flown carefully its about as capable as a generic > 2meter.)(...and it's neat when you find yourself on top) > > Martin Usher > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Greater Detroit Soaring And Hiking Society, GDSHS, is going to sponser > > an > > Eazy Glider Postal fun contest on the weekend of May 24th / 25th, 2008. > > (snip) > > > > > 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 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
