George; I mulled this over many times. I have no problem with anyone winch launching to compete for a medal in theory. The rub so far is that I really need to limit this to established or soon to be established scale events. I don't know any scale aerotow events that allow winch launching at their venue while aerotowing is going on. I can't have two guys setting up a winch on their own and going for a medal without some sort of verification. That is the only reason I limited it to aerotow and up and go units. The only way I see this working is if it has the ability to run seamlessly at a fun fly or even a scale XC event, the infrastructure is there already, the pilots likely to be interested are there already, and adding a complication outside the normal day's activities (winching) makes it hard on the event organizers to manage. But if anyone wanted to organize a sanctioned winch only scale meet, we can certainly look at that. Cheers, john
Endless Mountain Models http://www.scalesoaring.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: George Voss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:10 PM To: 'John Derstine'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RCSE] gold medal award program for scale John, this sounds like a great plan. How about including/allowing winch launch in the mix? gv -----Original Message----- From: John Derstine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RCSE] gold medal award program for scale 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.
