Greetings! I see lots of people compare TD/F3J/F3B to scale. I am a full scale glider pilot.. In the past I have given glider intro rides. Lots of them. There is no points for anything! Yes you have to land at the field preferably! And I can land and stop at the same spot everytime. Gliders are equipped to land very well. They also have wheel brakes that work very well. This is simple energy management. That is basically what flying is all about! When a pilot in a TD contest can't make it back to the tape? Energy management! When a pilot approaches the landing tape with good conditions into the wind, and has lots of speed and DORK's it? Energy management! To stay up in soft conditions? Energy management!
In full scale competition they have lots of points similar to our point system. They get points for speed and distance. Not for landings! But they do have to land back at the field. Thats a task in it's self concidering the distance they traveled. I do have question's about R/C scale meets. What do they do? Are there any points? Why do most of the tow planes look like a giant square fuselage with a park bench wing on it? I have never seen a real tow plane like this! So you have this beautiful three thousand dollar glider towed up with a thing that doesn't look like anything! I have watched several video's of launches and landings.. Real tow planes can't tow straight up! Again not scale! And 99% of the glider landings were very sketchy.. Lots of bouncing, ground looping, rolling off the runway into the rough. And several breaks on landing... I guess I don't get it? It's suppose to be scale! It doesn't look like scale! Well the only thing that looks scale is the glider. And there were a few nice looking tow planes.. But very few! Thanks for the thread! Cheers Charlie RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
