Jerry, et all; Although, to a point, I agree with you, but remember at who and what the Nats is really about... A chance for Joe average to fly with and hopefully learn from some of the countries best. Yea in a way that sort hurts, but you get more people involved in soaring that way. Other wise, the Nats ends up like F3b, with only 10 contestants. and not much of a contest to boot.
The Nats are aimed at Joe average, not Capn Jack, Jerry Shape or DP. The Landings are the way they are so that the majority of the participants has a chance to make a landing... You know who they are, the one year, two year and in some cases 30 year pilots, (you know who I mean) who may not be as adept at landing as you or some other people. If the Nats were made, like you may and a few others suggest, there would not be anyone there to compete with, except for the usual 5 to 10 people that we have come to know and love. Then the little guy, just could not "Kick some serious Asre".... Besides launching at the Nats is a trick as well... is it not? 8-) So, if you could, give me a break on the Nats stuff..we serve a greater purpose. JMOHO Jack Strother >From: "Shape" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jack Womack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [RCSE] Devaluing landings >Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:50:17 -0500 > >I was at a contest once where landings didn't count and everyone who made >their times just flew across the field and push down elevator at zero. >Instead of devaluing landings I think the landing tasks should be made >tougher. At the recent SWC contest they used a 100" tape and Skip Miller >won >by averaging in the mid 90s. I am disappointed when you go to a major >contest like the NATS and they do a Mickey Mouse runway landing task. >Learning to do more difficut landing tasks will make us all better fliers. >And opening up another can of worms. I think there should be two landing >tapes, one for RES and a shorter one for full house planes. If you are >going >to have flaps/al you ought to be able to hit a smaller target. >Jerry Jack Strother [EMAIL PROTECTED] LSF President LSF Level IV Loveland, OH _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
