Gordysoar Wrote: > > > Here's a test to let him prove his point... have any one of his > newbies run the motor up to about winch or high start height (400') then > make a 5min thermal flight....no turning the motor on..-you know- when > he gets kind of low, -you know- for 'safety's' sake.... > > When the have a motor to turn on, they don't learn to thermal...which > is fine, if they are happy 'flying' I say," let them eat er... > batteries!" :-)
On this, oh wise one, you are simply dead wrong. I have seen it happen. Gordysoar Wrote: > > In the year 2424, if the only way we TD guys can launch is to put a > motor in the nose of our models, God let it be just enough to get us up > to normal winch height..three times...its not supposed to 'fly' our > models, its only suppose to get them to the start of the game. :-) > > Gordy On this, oh wise one, we agree. I have been playing around with an f5j ZLOG which has an altitude cutoff switch. There is still a debate about whether this, by itself, will totally solve the problem of evening the field with the flying "arc welders", but, like you, I have no interest in an event which is "driven" by the amount of power you can cram into a glider -- I would be interested in simply reducing that to a dynomometer race. D.O. Darnell has suggested to me that we might reduce an altitude limited competition to a test of who could get down fastest from a predetermined altitude and hit a spot (pusher motor -- lawn dart noses :) ). All of the current formats ultimately place much more emphasis on optimizing the launch system than our current TD rules. Great if you like it. But. Happy Landings, Don -- dharban ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dharban's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=31927 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=883707 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
