Perry, The long term trend towards landing being more important than flying is inevitable, unfortunately.
The cause is the incredible progress that has been made, especially the last 6-7 years in plane technology. Today's best planes, in the hands of a reasonably experienced pilot, can easily max the 5-10 minute tasks that are typical. 5 minutes has become a joke, just the launch and a carefully managed hanging around in zero lift will give a 5 minute flight. Making the tasks longer than dead air hang time improved emphasis on pilot skills, but it needs to be much longer, and we are almost at the point where the planes are so good that the top 10% pilots can stay up as long as they want in good to fair conditions. So to spread out the field we have two choices: A) Make the task durations ridiculously long and have very few rounds. B) Use landings to spread out the top of the field. The problem with A is that pilots who aren't able to keep their planes in the air will have very little flying time, so we are left with B. Anker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perry Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:56 AM Subject: [RCSE] No one makes their target time. > > > I've been going to contests for awhile now and have noticed that the majority > of them are landing contests. > > Oh, I been to some where the longest skid mark in the snow wins, the most loops > win, the most rolls win, the fastest plane wins, but I have yet to go to a TD > contest where no one gets their target times. > > I would like to see the emphasis really put on flying as opposed to landing. > Anyone can do three minutes in the cool morning air with just a little help. > > Imagine if the first round of the morning was 8 minutes, round two was 7 min, > round three was 6 min. and round four was 5 min. With a maximum of five points > for all landings. > > I damn well think that the focus would be on flying and landing would take a > back seat. > > I think it's time to get back to the flying and let the lawn dart people have > at it. > > Just my thoughts. > > Comments anyone?? > > Regards,Perry > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
