This skeg thing is a safety issue, just ask your great proponent of no
skegs Don Edberg who had to jump out the way 2 times in one contest because
the guy he was timing ( no skeg) slid through the landing zone (hitting them
once). I have been hit by sailplanes a couple of times with enough force to
do damage to my person, I have never been hit or cut by a skeg. If you think
eliminating skegs will make for more gentile landings you have never been to
a serious F3J contest when a guy is to hot he just spikes it and hopes for
the best! Why do you think they can switch planes and their landings are in
meters! The (SC)2 contest circuit uses no metal ahead of the wing and any
sharp or dangerous looking spikes etc. can be not aloud to fly by the CDs
discretion. And I have told people they could not fly what I considered
dangerous looking skegs( ask Edger W.) Oh yes and by the way the full size
sailplanes have a wheel with a BRAKE, I should know I had a brake failure
once(very scary). Seeing as we stand in front of our landing planes I would
prefer to have them equiped with a stopping device.
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