Of course if you winch or hi start you need to move aside or adjacent to the power flight line. This is a given. We are lucky as we have the room to do so at our field. It is not impossible to schedule certain types of flying as well. Thermals usually are better in the afternoon, and most power boys, me included, enjoy the early morning calmness and coolness. We also have a no motor before 9:00 AM on weekends, so early early in the morning you will see rubber band free flight models flying in the morning calm. They get three hours in before anyone else is ready to fly. We schedule aerotow activity for mid afternoon and can easily coordinate with any power guys that are active, in fact that's how we recruit tow pilots! Saturday mornings are training and coaching as well as general power fun fly. Electrics dovetail easily and if they choose can land off field. As I said given you have the room it is attitude. John -----Original Message----- From: Fritz Bien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:11 PM To: John Derstine Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RCSE] Electrics at Glider fields > >Having spent five years getting permission to aerotow gliders at power >clubs, and seeing great results with the Canadian efforts to secure,(and >keep) sod farms with gas tow plane fueling areas, I am encouraged that a >spirit of cooperation is possible. In Europe, most clubs have all kinds of >modeling, there is no elitism or exclusiveness as a rule. they can not >afford the space to have separate fields for every kind of modeling. >The problem lies in the minds of men, not in any intrinsic incompatibility >of various forms of R/C flight. Hi John, I fly both power and sailplanes and I have to say that they are indeed incompatible in many instances on the same field, particularly at the small fields we get in New England. Aside from the noise/no noise arguments, there are fundamental incompatibilities with the two forms of flying: As a Glider flyer, I want to stand downwind of the field, and have my winch lines go through the middle of the field only to be anchored at the upwind end of the same. I really panic if there is a power pilot standing in the region of the field where the parachute is coming down. I hate it when some yahoo buzzes my head during his landing. As a power pilot, I like landing upwind. This means that on final, I like to have my quarter-scale at head-height on the downwind corner. I hate it when some yahoo is standing there flying his glider. That towline that lands on the runway is also a nuisance. If the field is big enough so that the glider pilot is out of the way of my approach, or if I was towing the glider, there would be no problem. We would be flying form the same spot. Its when the field has enough room for the glider pilot to stand in the way of the power pilot and visa versa that we have problems. Note that powered sailplanes can be flown from either pilot areas, whereas one would tend to fly high-speed heavy hot-liner electrics from the power-flyers spot. ...Then there is the guy that insists on hovering his helicopter in the middle of the runway. :-) -Fritz RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
