Wow, another how you launch discussion! Check out the 18 pages of "stuff" on RCGroups-Electric Sailplanes if you want to get all the in's and out's of launching in a TD contest with motors. It is under the "F5J" thread http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=883683.
It is a worthwhile discussion on how to save the Electric Sailplane Nat's by getting winch launched TD pilots involved in using electric motors to launch F3J style to a specific altitude and making it a real sailplane contest. Our club is experimenting with this a little and I hope to organize a demo sometime during the WL Nat's to generate some interest. So far our club likes both launch methods but the impromptu MOM contest with electrics is winning. No winch problems and almost any plane or power system works. I am still tweaking some of the little differences we will need for F5J but hope to have a rules set built within the next year and tested over the next couple of years (maybe at the Nat's like I did with Nostalgia) before submitting a rules change proposal to AMA. Jack On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 07/14/2008 8:21:54 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After watching the World F3J I had an idea for a contest... > > Incorporate the time penalty on tow that they have in F3J but in a TD > format. > > You would have a timer at each winch who would time your launch and write > that time down on your card... For example if it were a 10 min task and > you > towed for 6 sec the best time you could get would be a 9:54 even though you > flew a > perfect 10... Or even better... Double the time on tow penalty, so if it > was > a 6 sec tow the best time you could get would be 9:48. Seems to me it would > throw more strategy and fun into a normal TD contest > > Suggestions ? Comments? > > Craig > ________________________________________________ > > Having read the other replies, I think the solution would be to have a > device > that timed the length of time the winch motor was on for the launch and > deduct that from the score. That would allow a woody to tap up to the top > and take > their time doing so without incurring the "time on tow" penalty. The > penalty > would then be for "time using power on tow." > > Bill Wingstedt > > > > > **************Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live > music > scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! > (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus00050000000112) > 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 > -- Jack Iafret Home and Hobbies
