Charlie, I think you may have a virus. A second e-mail came from you with the attachment Happy99.exe. You might want to check that out. Dave on 12/18/00 8:21 AM, charlie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the landing is the hardest part! As in full scale soaring, the > landing aproach is a precision manuver. It's very critical! There is a > big penalty paid if you mess up!! > In soaring contests there are several cases where everyone will stay up! > The lift is everywhere... The precision landing aren't nessesarily DORK > landings. They are what you make them.. If your speed and pattern are > correct. It will be a nice low energy landing. I think the DORK landings > are a result of inproper speed. Going to fast makes a pilot drive it in > to hard. They have no choice, if they want landing points.. I try never > to have to drive a model in hard. Besides, the rules for unlimited are > very stricked. You can't loose a part on landing. You can't flip over! > In F3J european event!!! They are allowed to drive them in and destroy > them if they want.. As long as the nose cone stays on the tape, they are > ok!! > I think that makeing a low energy landing is a very hard thing to do > everytime with conditions the we deal with.. The models will take a > slightly hard DORK. But I have seen very hard DORKS.. There is no reason > for that... Well? Except for Visalia. Where they set up for down wind > landings.. Very different comared to what we are use to. But never the > less a challenge. And everyone is on the same page. > I think it is much better to master the landings than to change the > rules... There are many people who would like to see skeggs go away to.. > If they do?? Fine!! I will learn to land with out skeggs... > Cheers > Charlie > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

