Jeff, Here's one for you. Our club once flew an event called SM1LE, standing for Simple Multitask 1-Lap Event.
You launched into the wind, then went back behind the launch point. You then had a time limit by which you had to get on the course, which started near the launch point and went upwind. You flew up to the turn point, then back; after completing the course you finished out the rest of your duration task and landed. There were points for getting on the course, for the upwind leg, for the downwind leg, points based on how long it took to make the 1 lap, points for duration and landing points. The day we flew it there was a pretty stiff headwind. Not everybody completed the course and not everybody made the time, which I believe was 6 minutes. It's not automatic by any means to make 6 minutes when you have to follow a fixed flight course. The winner made it to the upwind mark quite low, caught a little hand-launch thermal, circled in it while still on the clock -- ruining his speed score, of course -- and drifted the length of the course. He then managed to fly out the time and hit his landing. It was an excellent event in my opinion but was never repeated because the way we ran it, with only one plane on course at a time, made it take too long -- we did only two rounds. Nonetheless, it was lots of fun to fly and fun to watch. It would be a real hoot to fly it with 4-man MOM flight groups! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
