- "F3B is RACING!"-
F3B isnt racing. Real racing is the Unlimited MOM like the ISR event at
Davenport in two weeks. Flying head to head in 30MPH winds at 11lbs, thats
real racing!
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Neverdosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <soaring@airage.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] F3B (team)
I have to both agree and disagree with David on this.
To FLY f3b and learn more, push your skills and have lots of fun does
not require much in terms of equipment or people and really not any
more money than a good effort in f3j or USA TD.
The key comes in if you want to compete at a world class level and win.
F3B is RACING!
The speed task is real racing where you are either pushing the limits
and on the edge or you are not in the competition.
Distance, now that there is no limit is like class racing. Not so on
the edge but still pushing hard and working the equipment and air to,
or near the limits.
Duration keeps the planes and pilots honest by making them thermal and
stay up. This keeps the planes and pilots more skilled in various ways
that make a more rounded package.
Anybody here watch a NASCAR race?
The driver is at the wheel when the car crosses the line but it is the
Owner, Driver, Crew Chief, Pit Crew, Mechanics, Builders, Sponsers and
others who work to get him there.
A failure anywhere in the team will result in a poor finish if the car
even gets into the race in the first place.
Of course the money isn't in RC to support this kind of effort so it
doesn't happen unless someone does it out of pocket.
Anybody know any pilots who might like to join a team where the team
provides the winches, planes, radios, sighting and timing equipment
and mechanics and helpers and all the pilot has to do is FLY?
Imagine being able to drop over to the field after work and practice
for an hour with top equipment and full sighting/timing on all flights
and no time wasted on setup and teardown?
How about having planes and radios so that even if you destroy your
primary model the night before a contest you still go into the contest
with a full quiver of new, perfectly trimmed, top notch planes.
Think of flying a contest where your team is as smooth and skilled as
a NASCAR pit crew.
Oh well, gotta dream sometimes. :)
Ever notice how much faster you learn something if you do it once a
week vice once a month?
How about twice a week? This is better split up as weekend and mid
week than both on the weekend.
Even the pilots who fly F3B are rarely flying it more than a few times
a year (in the USA), what if they could fly fully measured and timed
tasks 10 or 100 times as often?
michael
On 5/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I guess maybe my point is, f3b seems to give the feeling you need lots of
people, spend a ton on equipment and you need specialty planes,
which you're going to end up breaking.
At least that's what i always perceived.
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