I haven't flown in many contests but my limited experience advice is to forget about the contest. Just fly the best you can and have fun. Dont even look at the standings until the contest is over. When you start getting hung up on scores/placement etc. the fun goes away and many times your performance goes away w/it. This happened to me at the SWC, I went there w/goals of having fun, learning, not destroying my plane on launch and nothing more. After the first day I was in 20 something place which was far better than I had expected. I started counting places, scores, etc- went to bed early that night- didn't even stay up and knock down a cool one or two w/my newly found buddies camping next to me. End result- I dropped 50 or more places by contests end! Need I say more. Walter -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Schwinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [RCSE] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:54 PM Subject: [RCSE] My first hlg contest this weekend! >Does anyone have any last minute "words of wisdom" or advice for me >before I head to Baltimore on Saturday morning for the ECHLGC? This will >be my first model airplane contest since I flew CL and FF in 1968!! I've >got 3 Lil' Bird2's ready ready to fly. My goals are to have fun, learn >a lot, take lots of photos (I'll post them on a web site), not get too >sunburned (the weather forecast looks great!) and to bring at least one >of my LB's home in one piece! > >cliff >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]
