Joe & Jan Wurts wrote:
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> If the goal is landing measurement, I'd recommend using short
> bungee launches with 1 minute target times. Gets rid of the boredom
> of waiting for time to land, and would allow for many more rounds to
> be flown.
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Wow - What a concept.
No need to use high priced mouldies. Why waste time with performance. Just put on 50%
chord flaps on a Skeeter, fit half a dozen
mega-skegs, a meat hook, grappling iron and a determalizer fuse and the landing is in
the bag. If this does not suffice, maybe just
stand over the spot and whack it with a baseball bat - that will get the bugger down.
Seriously though, I've been wading through the posts and wondering why the obsession
with landings. And as for skegs, well we have
minimum nose radii for safety purposes, only to be replaced with sharp sawtooth
devices.
The US seems to be the only country who uses skegs or is obsessed with the landing
bit. Most other countries fly F3x classes and
relatively low key open contests quite happily (at least in the half dozen or more
countries I've flown in). I know the the US
tends to look down on FAI classes (F/F, C/L as well as R/C), maybe because they did
not originate in the states. Whatever the reason
the classes seem to work well and without too much controversy for the rest of us.
This plug for FAI is not meant to reflect on US rule contests which have contributed
much to worldwide advancement of the hobby. My
point is that the US seem to tackel a rule problem by introducing complexity into the
revisions, rather than trying to simplify the
solution.
The problem is that however complex or simple the rules are, they will never cover all
situations to everyone's liking.
John O'Sullivan
Nova Scotia
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