Hadicapping the plane is a waste. It's like determining a golf handicap based on the choice of ball.
You need to handicap the pilot. To ttruly level the playing field based on models, get several like models, such as Aspires or Spirits, fit them out and let all pilots fly from this model pool. No one is to use the same model twice in a contest. You'll see that the top pilots win just about every time. At a club contest earlier this year, one of our experts, Luther Mitchell, damaged his Super-V two meter on the next to last landing. I urged him to use my Aspire and finish his flights. He did and easily maxxed out and won the Expert Two-meter event that day. I never did max out the wame plane in the Sportsman contest that day. It's more than the plane..... .........bc AG4YQ Williamsburg, VA On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Rick Eckel wrote: > I'm interested in opinions. Our club Contest Coordinator is going to use a > handicap system for our monthly contests to sorta level the field for > different types of airplanes. We're hoping that it will encourage > participation. > > Figuring that the Unlimited full house ship is the gold standard, how much > of a handicap would you give a full house two meter? An RES 2 meter? and > an unlimited RES. > > Keep it simple please, I'm a bear of very little brain and I'm the one who > will have to figure out the scoring. > > My initial take was: > > Full house 2m: +10% > RES 2m: +12% > RES Unlimited: +5% > > What do you think? > > Rick > > > > > > > > Richard A. Eckel, PE, NSPE > Eckel & Associates, Inc. > 1757 W. Broadway St. Suite 3 > Oviedo, FL 32765 > Professional Engineering for Petroleum Facilities > Office: 407-366-8852 > Cell: 954-775-6027 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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. > 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.
