At 08:02 PM 6/19/04 -0400, Rudy Siegel wrote: >A couple of years ago, I got stopped on the highway for going 78 in a 65 >zone. My speedo said 71. The Trooper said that he calibrated his radar gun >as he left and returned from the State Highway Patrol post. He never >admitted that his gun was wrong, yet I've lived by "give 'em 10, take 'em at >11" forever with lots of similar, non-ticketed encounters. So, how are you >record setters calibrating the radar guns? Can they record a non-linear, or >non-parallel path speed?
The radar guns we've been using (Decatur) have a tuning fork type calibration. Beyond that, don't know. I'm not sure what the Stalker uses. <snip> >I'm not minimizing the accomplishment, heck I blew up my Vortex at Parker >last month pushing my personal envelope. But what gentleman's agreements >are in place about what counts? Rudy AMA 131126 CD That's just it..it's on the honor system. The DS'ing community is pretty small, and it seems to be working. I don't think any sort of official recognition is the cards, or even desired. Consider that such established slope disciplines like F3F don't even have officially sanctioned FAI or AMA records. The chances of that happening for something like DS is pretty slim. ____________________________________________________________________________ Brett Jaffee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brett's Slope and Power Home Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~jaffee OnTheWay Quake 3 server utility: http://www.planetquake.com/ontheway ____________________________________________________________________________ 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.
