Re: [RCSE] RES Skegs
Hi Dave: I remember that incident. As I remember the injury was caused by the metal hardware on a name tag on the victim's (Dave London?) hat. The plane came in hot and slid through the landing zone, flared up and grazed the victims hat causing a pretty bloody cut. The plane didn't have a skeg or very aggressive teeth. Tim -Original Message- From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mike Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [RCSE] RES Skegs Mike, sems to me that a few years ago at the Fall Soaring Festival, a guy from Sacramento hed the side of his head opened up, either by a skeg or nose protruberances, not certain which. Another post from another flyer calls not using skegs "dumb". Well, I guess that the rest of the world is "dumb". And, if they are, why do the top US fliers buy and fly European planes? No more responses from me. This issue is just causing polarization. Dave Darling RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [RCSE] RES Skegs
Dave, I have been flying the Fall Soaring Fest for the last ten years, and I do not recall an incident like the one you described. I do recall many ankles, and legs, hit by non skaged gliders sliding threw the landing area and have yet to see a severe injury due directly to a skag. I do recall Don Vickers and Marshal Searcy being struck and knocked down by a glider flying threw the landing zone, Don was a young 69 and Marshal just had bypass surgery. What I report here is fact and first hand information and anything else that I do not know is speculation and not reported on RCSE. Contest people need to make decisions for contest people there seems to be many non and anti contest people giving there opinions in an area where they do not participate. This is a problem when real and workable rules need to be ironed out. I guess I have spoken my peace this forum is a place to discuss such issues but if your a non contest person remember your opinion can be fuel to the fire of trying have a organized set of rules for RES a performance challenged class that I stay away from. joe rodriguez -Original Message- From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mike Stump Subject: Re: [RCSE] RES Skegs Mike, sems to me that a few years ago at the Fall Soaring Festival, a guy from Sacramento hed the side of his head opened up, either by a skeg or nose protruberances, not certain which. Another post from another flyer calls not using skegs "dumb". Well, I guess that the rest of the world is "dumb". And, if they are, why do the top US fliers buy and fly European planes? No more responses from me. This issue is just causing polarization. Dave Darling RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] RES Skegs
Greetings, Are you, deep down inside, hoping that the ones with the itsy bitsy landing zones and skegs whould change to what the rest of the world has? I don't think it would hurt. Might mmake for a few interesting fly offs! --- Mike Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 issues, landing tasks... the rest of the world uses the FAI tape, 1 meter radius for 100 points... maybe someday they'll come up to speed with a better landing test.. Mike Stump = Dennis Phelan __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] RES Skegs
From: "Rick Eckel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Of course my opinion is that not using a skeg for a task with a precision landing is "dumb". It may be dumb if everyone else is using one and you aren't, but if no one uses one..? The top pilots will get the top scores no matter what the rules. Good losers will find ways to become better pilots. Others will look for ways to change the contest to their perceived advantage and will be frustrated when they still lose to the top pilots. This started as a discussion of skegs on RES planes and degenerated into a general skeg argument. Open class planes are allowed a lot of things that RES prohibits. Let the "open" class stay open with skegs if desired, and let the RES class stay simple without skegs. Rick, RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
