If you all put your blinders on, maybe all this new technology will go away...
NOT
The world progresses, things change, adapt or be left behind.
The strong feelings of some of my pilot friends and others in this hobby
wanting things to stay the way they were is really wearing on me. I've
been basically accused of buying my wins and cheating with new technology
season after season for years now, even as I play totally within the
rules. I fly the "cheater" planes, I fly the "cheater" varios, so
obviously that must mean I have no skill or talent so I have to buy it. I
am so sick of hearing peoples excuses for not trying hard enough to compete
at TD contests, at my reputations expense. If you want to play at the top
level of TD comps you are going to have spend some money, you are going to
have to understand the new technologies whether it be the latest model
design, the latest computer radio and digital servos, or the latest
telemetry technology and see if it works for you. You are going to have to
practice, you are going to have to spend the time and money to travel to
out of state contests, and you are going to have to concentrate on what you
are doing and work at it, HARD, to be successful. It doesn't come easy
from what I have experienced, I have been humbled many times by far more
skilled and talented pilots than myself.
America is a technology progressive society, and it competes this way all
around me, particularly in the biotech business I am in. And I am very
successful in that arena because of the way I aggressively look at, absorb
and create new technology. I am a progressive thinker, I always want to
learn about the next new thing, I always want the advantage if it is
obtainable within the rules, I always shoot for the win, and I do it
straight up like an honest man.
I think for our hobby to grow we have to progress, when it stagnates like
it has over the years, it's no wonder we have no new blood, and guys that
did participate for years drift away to other past times so they can
continue to learn and grow.
You all know what to do if you want to keep things the same, make some more
rules, lock it down and stifle all this new technology. I can guarantee
the same guys will always keep winning if there are never any new angles to
play out.
Jim
Downers Grove, IL
Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR
AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
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