Gentlemen,
The answer is already in the rule book, it's been there for a long
time. AMA TD is not just supposed to be a duration task with a
landing option. The tasks are Duration, Distance and Speed. No, I'm
not confusing this with FAI F3b! Look in your rule book, someone, at
some time included a set of tasks other than
precision/international/triathalon/whatever duration. AMA fliers
don't like them, CD's and clubs don't run them and they're not even
included in activities at the National Championships[except for the
running of the F3b event]. If you think that these tasks have nothing
to do with thermalling, think again!
Talk all you want about landings determining the winner without
including these skill and equipment related tasks and you will be
missing he boat[plane].
Don't come up with, " There aren't enough people to run these tasks!"
either!! If contestants can act as timers, they can count laps or
click off a timed run on four laps!
To use even one task other than duration as a "tie breaking" task in
a contest would eliminate the "landing issue".
Dennis
FROM THE A.M.A. RULEBOOK:
Radio Control Sailplanes
Thermal Duration
11. Scoring-General. The intent of having multiple tasks available is
not to select one(1) task and have a contest, but rather to use as
many tasks as possible during each contest. Especially for contests
of two (2) or more days, it is presumed that three (3) or four (4)
tasks will be flown.
--- John Dertine wrote:
>There is a real easy way to improve the
>contests with out resorting to the
>non flying skill of the dork landing.
>Make the flying tasks more
>challenging. the problem is that the
rules for most TD type events were
>developed years ago well before optimized
>modern ships were conceived.
>I would submit that it is a comment on
>the lack of incentive to change rules
>to suit modern ship design.
--- FRED SAGE wrote:
> The reason for precision landings in AMA TD contests is to
> determine the winner, or more specifically to identify the more
> capable or proficient pilots. Given the current state of the art
> with design and construction, making whatever flight task is
> decreed is almost routine, at least here in SOCAL....
>...I
> also can't think of a better way of taking the luck out of contest
> scores.
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