Man-on-man and less launch altitude could emphasize flying skills, also
strategy would be important. 10 gliders man-on-man in a heat would be a
blast. Sort of like the duration task in F3B, only severely limit the power
and height of the launches. A lot of pilots dont care to run around
towing (F3J) or throw their arms out (HLG) and F3B will probably never
attract a large number of participants due to cost and hassle. Smaller
winches or maybe highstarts?? Smaller, lighter planes?
A few more years and technology will probably decide this issue for us and
anyone with a few hours practice will be able to max every time and make a
95+ landing within a second or two.
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> From: Rick Brown and Jill Wiest[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 6:50 PM
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> Subject: [RCSE] emphasis on thermaling
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you de-emphasize landings you need to do something to make the
> flight time a better discriminator.
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> During a contest last year, after some complaints on Saturday about the
> top 12 guys within 100 points of perfect, the CD obliged and the next
> day went to shorter launch lines and longer flight times to try to
> emphasis the thermaling portion of the contest. The longer times do tend
> to make the landing points mean less. Of course the guy who complained
> on Saturday was not there on Sunday to have to deal with the harder
> tasks brought on by his comments.
>
> No matter what though, if the lift is good, there will be a dozen guys
> that fly near perfect times and shoot near perfect landings all day
> long. It may seperate the field of flyers down thru the ranks but not
> the top flyers.
>
> Here on the East Coast this may work about half of the days when the
> lift is not consistent. It could shake up the field, but on those good
> lift days the longer flight times are just a bore. You fly around
> without trying to gain altitude and wait for the last few minutes to do
> your landing 'thing'.
>
> What's a CD to do?
>
> Later,
> RB
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