Jeff Steifel Wrote: > > 3 10 min flights in 1 hour is > ridiculous... That isn't hard. In a good air cycle it's easy. > My son was bored a couple of weeks ago... He had 3 30 or longer minute > > flights .. he thought soaring was easy. Then he went to 2 contests and > > did very poorly at one and reasonably well at the other but did have > problems. You see the air he went out in was quite easy.. making him > seem like a JW, DP or Tom Kiesling. But he is none of those guys. > > > > > > > > Please humor me. There is no comparison between flying 3 30 minute > > flights (even in a row) and flying 3 10 minute flights in one hour when > > the 10 minute flights are scored using AMA Precision Duration scoring > > (that is task T3, if you know what that is) and using AMA L4 spot > > landing (if you know what that is). I just looked at the results for > > the first four SC2 contests this year and rescored them per AMA T3 and > > L4. In the first contest Joe Wurts won over a field of 70 with a score > > which would have been 2301/2400 scored as an AMA T3 and L4. In the > > second contest Larry Jolly won over a field of 49 with a score which > > would have been 2322/2400. In the third contest, Edgar Vera won over a > > field of 54 with a score which would have been 2375/2400. In the fourth > > contest Larry Jolly won over a field of 61 with a score which would have > > been 2325/2400. And on and on. Maybe those tasks are easy where you > > fly. I would conclude that the 2350 standard suggested in my post may > > be a little too severe. > > > > I agree with your assertion that it is easy to put up 3 30 minute plus > > flights in a day. Ray Hays has written elsewhere that he advises new > > flyers that 30 minute flights are still for beginners. Please > > understand, the task suggested is not Duration -- it is Precision > > Duration. A assume you have flown it -- if not read the rules. > > > > As I suggested in my last post, go out and fly three 10 minute flights > > in an hour or over any uniform interval you want to choose where you > > are forced to launch at a time not of your choosing and score them per > > AMA T3 and L4. Let us know the results. If you can easily exceed > > 2350/2400 you need to set up a man-on-man with Joe Wurts. I'll put my > > money on Joe :)
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