[RCSE] Emphasis or de-emphasis on landings

[Aradhana Singh Khalsa]

Skip, Thanks for the perspective. I've never seen anything like what you describe. Do I understand correctly that this World level format allows burying the plane's nose in the ground? Yeach!!!   Do you think it could be objective enough to say that a darted landing equals zero points, and that an end-O equals the same? Is there any way to bypass these two caveats and make the skeg-less landings ugly?   Whatever, I absolutely agree--no subjective judging. That reminds of ice skating--we don't want any of those problems. I'd rather have a spike on the nose.   Aradhana Singh Khalsa New Mexico   -----Original Message----- From: Skip Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Emphasis or de-emphasis on landings Hi Aradhana,   I have been in competition forever(28 years top level national, world stuff), and the worst most violent landing today is the F3J landing. We are not allowed skegs on the world level, so a typical approach is approxmately 5' high coming up to the spot and SLAM 2/10ths of a second before the 10 minute window buzzer goes off.This was amazingly insane at the last worlds and I know there are many pictures on the internet of the final seconds models literally at 90 degrees for the points(don't forget no skegs) Sorry removing the skegs will make it much worse, way more dangerous as you have many pilots who without skegs have no ability to slow the model down......I also have been known to compete in semi serious national pattern(aerobatic) competition and DON"T want to bring judges to our sport...a whole new level of complication. Hope this helps with some perspective,   Sincerely.   Skip Miller   P.S I have also noticed the more a landing is de-emphasised(sp) the more emphasis is put on it; the less points actually mean MORE!