It just looks like he is yelling because I see his messages in BOLD.
At 08:48 PM 9/25/2004, Jerry Miller wrote:
Jeez Gordy,
You don't have to get so violent pounding your computer keys like that, settle down, cuz you might miss Visalia. BUT you are right on about CONTESTS, not sport flying which is a different kind of flying. Sport flyers just do it, because they have no ambition to challenge anything, if the plane gets too high they land.
Jerry
At 04:24 PM 9/25/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Bottom line is that our soaring contests usually do come down to landings.
First that's crap...in every form. A flight consists of two parts, because the flight is the first part, the 'landing' points get the blame, sort of like a guy standing over a dead body with a smoking gun....seems like its all his fault.
If everyone gets his time, you still have to prove your ability to control the nose of your sailplane.. precisely. You don't have to make three loops, do it inverted, knife edge or flat, you can spin in, twist in, slide in, stick in, bounce in, what ever it takes to put the nose of your model on the target. It doesn't usually come down to the 'landing', it always does, cuz you need both halves of the task to max, you need more total points than the others to get wood.
If a contest is decided by the landing points, then it's sneered at as a 'landing contest', but do you know what its called if everyone gets their time but misses all the landing points? A bunch of crappy sailplane pilots ;-)
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