I'd also like to congratulate Skip Miller for his exceptional landing performance at the SWC. I don't know his individual round landing scores, but doing the math backward, you can determine his average landing. There were 3,460 possible points in the contest and Skip accumulated 3364 points. Assuming his addemup time was perfect at 46 minutes (probably the case), Skip only lost a total of 96 landing points through seven rounds. That means he only lost an average of 13.7 points per landing. Although that might not seem remarkable, please remember that these points were decrimenting at one point per inch instead of the normal AMA one point per three inches. If these landings had been flown on a standard AMA tape, they would have scored an average 95.5. For those that attend a lot of contests, that figure isn't particularly remarkable and has been duplicated numerous times. However, to truly appreciate this level of proficiency, please remember that the majority of Skip's landings were occurring during gusty and turbulent conditions with down wind or cross wind vectors of 10-20 knots. That's astounding. The next time you're out practicing landings on a windy day, put a 14" circle out as your target and see how consistently you can park the nose on the spot when it's downwind/crosswind at 15 knots. Of course, you'd probably be a fool to practice in these conditions as damage to the glider is the usual consequence.
IAC, congratulations Skip! You sure humbled us at this contest. Fred RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
