-why are the people who have no interest or participation in e-soaring events on any level-
Doesn't take a lot of thinking here. We are alotted just so many minutes of time to do our hobby each month. We chose to spend them doing the kind of flying we like...there just isn't time or money to focus on more than one thing. When E 'soaring' comps turned into motor wars...the soaring guys got bored...if we were interested in motors and their components, we'd have stayed flying electrics or glow. But we have no interest in motors, or even radios...its the soaring that has us hooked, thermals to be exact and the endless hunt for them. The guys interested in motors, got excited about LMR because it played into their interests...a chance to over power the other competitors. When the soaring guys like Bob got involved, the focus started leaning toward more difficult soaring tasks...and that bored the power guys. The few still involved (motor guys) are the ones who yelped the loudest when they assumed that the Zlog Alti Switch was going to butt into their 'powers'. IF they'd have actually read the article, they'd have seen that not one single soaring guy is interested in changing or affecting their 'hobby'. We are instead just looking at ideas for our possible doom (future of no winches, or land go set one up.) One more time thread mates, enjoy your LMR events, decide your own rules, have fun. Power up and enjoy. No contest rules need to even be considered for the use of a Zlog Alti Switch...no beepers or timers or anything else...because other than the test group that Jack is going to try this summer, there's no one planning on putting a motor in his sailplane soon. Why so little interest in Powered Soaring Events? Because soaring guys aren't intersted in motors, batteries, props and gear boxes...and motor guys aren't interested in thermaling at a contest...kind of like watching grass grow in dry weather ;-). Gordy Chicago on the beach tomorrow -- Gordysoar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gordysoar's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=12801 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=886033 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
