John, you said, "An open winch contest with even 30 people should not have many channel conflicts if people would carry extra channels to use. I have two alternate channels to use so I have not had a problem."
Maybe, but one conflict is all it takes to make it missery for two fliers, and still you cannot eliminate the fact that you may have to wait on the winch, either because of a line or if the winch has an issue. And all the good air calling you can make goes down the toilet while you are in line or waiting on a line fix or mechanical issues. MOM takes this into respect since a group must launch together. My favorite thing in an open wich contest is to walk up, launch into big air and have the winch die. Takes care of competition and I am on my own to make the clock run. "As for "making the flight happen"; don't you mean landings? Most of the time all I see that the flight is secondary to the dork. It's not about flying, but dorking the plane in to get the most landing points. Landing points are the deciding factor in most of the MOM contest I have witnessed" NO,and I mean NO. Go and watch these contests, the example I have is Bill Wingstadt at LOFT this spring, remember his save at the landing tape that he flew out over the road at no height? Don Harris putting the spank on guys in the high group at DARTS in what appeared to be nothing but made it happen, and he had a zero landing that day too. Even the Nats, where you cannot miss a landing and win, air time is still the great divider, not landings. On the days when lift is big, ya landings shuffle the deck, but staying up in huge air once you are up proves nothing unless you just like to fly around in it. And I think that is what is at the core here, the reasons contests are popular is that there are competitive people out there, and we really dig it. I am guessing that competitve circumstaces are not your cup of tea? My favorite day of flying is to go to Chicago and prctice using their PA system as a clock The minute someone has won the group you come down and start over. Staying up any longer is burning up battery that you could fly another practice round. Have fun flying, the stick time is great for you, someday you may come to the fold. Marc . 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.
