Although slower than I had anticipated, F3j Winch contests have been showing up at the club level here in the States. I have been to a couple across the country. I know that our Rep to the FAI in asking for and pushing for opinions on the matter. It looks like we will end up going the way of regulated winches as well. I welcome the format change. Not necessarily the hardware rfestrictions. If you are interested, and are stateside, get a hold of Terry Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and let him know. He has more data than I do, Jack Strother LSF President
At 10:59 PM 8/10/2002 +1200, Aneil wrote: >If you actually look at the round scores you will see it is timed to the >tenth of a second. What you are looking at is the "Normalised" score as a >percentage to 2dp. At some point you have to draw the line. Yes Joe did get >pipped, perhaps if he wore shoes? >I still feel the fly off's are stupid, why not just continue the rounds >dropping your worst score. Then add winches (with Mono). >Enjoyed following it this week. >Aneil, Auckland, NZ > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rick Van Clief [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Saturday, 10 August 2002 22:38 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [RCSE] FAI timing > > >OK we're talking about hundredths here. I may be revealing gross ignorance >here, but how can some guy holding a stopwatch hope to be accurate enough >for hundredths of a second to be considered? > >RVC > > >At 08:07 PM 8/9/02 -0700, you wrote: > >OK, it appears as if we're carrying timing to the > >tenth of a second for F3J. But does this mean we're > >rounding the hundredths? Or truncating? OK, sorry, > >don't care. I don't much keep up with F3J. We truncate > >in F3B, or has this been changed also? > > > >Go Shoeless Joe! GO! Don't let those Canadian hockey > >geeks whoop up on us! ;-) > > > >D > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > >http://www.hotjobs.com > >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] > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" >and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Strother LSF President Loveland, OH LSF 2948 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
