OK, I've thought of a new game that might interest Daryl tomorrow night at SWSA. Let's call it "stab for the dollars in the dark". Here's the way it might work. All the players would put a dollar into a small stack in the landing zone at the beginning of the round. If there's 20 contestants, they'd be 20 one dollar bills in a neat stack in the landing zone. Since this is a night event and since the landing zone is green grass at SWSA, the dollar bills would virtually disappear against the grass background. The only illumination allowed to help see the dollars would be the flashlight you'd mount on your glider along the longitudinal axis to act as a landing light. If you have a sufficiently bright flashlight and it's mounted correctly to illuminate your glide path and if you're able to fly a nice smooth glide slope, then you'd be able to see the dollars as you approach for landing. However, any deviation from a perfect glide slope and line up would slew the narrow beam of the flashlight away from the dollars as you make corrections. You'd literally end up taking a stab for the dollars in the dark at the spot where you thought the dollars were. The closest to the dollars takes them for the round with the round being over after all participants have their turn. Contestants in subsequent rounds fly in the order of their finish in the previous round with the winner flying last. The winner of the previous round would fly for free in the next round. Having a twisted mind, here's the kicker. A three minute precision flight is also required with the flight score decrementing at one point per second. Scoring would be simple and could even be done in your head by deducting the number of inches from the dollars during your landing from your precision score to determine your round score. A perfect round would be 180 points which would be a three minute flight minus zero points because you stuck the dollars. If you're more than 15 feet from the dollars, your round score would be negative because you'd be losing more landing points than are available from flight time (15'X12"=180 points). Cylumes or night ops lights could be used to help orient the glider off the winch. However, pilots flying foamy or expendable gliders probably wouldn't make the time with the added payload. In addition, those that mounted a large flashlight in order to get max illumination would also suffer a significant performance penalty through both weight and drag and might not make the time. It would be a delicate balance between making the flight time and being able to see the dollars while landing. Those that don't make smooth approaches or who make hard dork landings would suffer as the flashlight would probably have to be replaced or at least remounted between rounds. Since we'd be risking our $1,000+ gliders in this environment, it would certainly put the thrill of competition back into the occasion. Finally, whoever's particularly adept at this task would walk away with some cash after several rounds (not enought to replace a damaged glider but certainly better than just bragging rights).
Hey, maybe I've thought of a TD format where pilots won't be bored but it's still a landing contest. Now if we just add a requirement of one beer per round to the format, we'd really have a winner. (CD's, don't tell the AMA about this last provision in your sanction request). All tongue in cheek of course; Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Borer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daryl Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] So Cal this w/e > Daryl-- > > We're having our SWSA annual Night Fly/Potluck on Saturday > at 4:30 PM. Flying begins at dusk with the longest two > flights winning and landings are optional...... > > Dan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daryl Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 8:43 AM > Subject: [RCSE] So Cal this w/e > > > > Looks like I'll be spending this w/e in So Cal. Any > > contests anywhere? > > > > Bring your singles boys... Daryl needs a new > > Lancair.... ;-) > > > > D > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection > around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > 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. > > 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. > > 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.
