This year Karl Miller supplied some hot food which was fantastic.
Steve
At 12:36 PM 12/5/2002 +0000, Tom wrote:
Okay... my idea sucked but that handicap thing is messed up. I think
I'd need a beer a round just to figure my flight time target.
;)
Tom Siler
Columbus Oh (buried in snow)
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "James V. Bacus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:46 PM 12/4/2002, Lee Estingoy wrote:
> >Has anybody considered a handicap, like in golf or sailing?
>
> Yup, we do it every year at the SOAR club turkey shoot. It
basically does
> what you would expect, one of the top guys puts on a spectacular
> performance to win the thing beyond all odds, and it allows some
other
> pilots to taste wood during the thanksgiving holidays.
>
> Don Smith came up with the following handicap system that we have
been
> using for years:
> (we may have had a handicapped landing system too, but this is like
taxes
> for me and I had my scoring advisor calculate my task times for me
before
> flying... I just fly.) 8-)
>
> -----8<-----
>
> Round 1: 6 minutes for everyone
>
>
> Round 2: 6 minutes + an equipment factor (f) calculated as follows,
> 1 +
>
>
> Class : -.4 HLG hand launched
> -.2 1.5 M - 2 meter span
> 0 between 2 and 3 meters
> +.2 greater than 3 meters
>
>
> Construction
> -.2 built up sticks
> 0 wood sheeted foam
> +.2 bagged composite
> +.4 molded
> Control surfaces
> -.2 2 function
> 0 3 function
> +.2 full house (> 3 function)
>
>
> example composite Phasor 2M would have a factor of (1-.2+.2+.2) =
1.2
> resulting in a task time of 7.2 minutes (7 min. 12 sec.) and a
Stork would
> draw a factor of (1+ .2 + .4 + .2) = 1.8, the task would be 10.8
minutes. (The
> task being calculated by multiplying the round 1 task by the factor)
>
>
> Round 3: add to the factor for round 2 the following single highest
> applicable factor:
>
>
> -.3 no previous contest flying
> 0 for club contests
> +.3 Out of State competitions
> +.5 Competing at a National Champs
> +.8 Competing in an international comp or Visalia
> +.8 winning a Nats Champ
> + 1.5 for winning a World Champs
>
>
> example: the unfortunate Nats champ pilot of a Stork would add
their round 2
> factor of 1.8 and .8 for a total factor of 2.6. Multiplying by 6
mins. would
> result in a task of 15.6 minutes for round 3.
>
>
> Jim
> Downers Grove, IL
> Member of the Chicago SOAR club, AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level III
> ICQ 6997780 R/C Soaring Page at www.jimbacus.net
>
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