sorry. i wrote: 'i agree with tom k. pretty soon, we will be having electric fliers." pb
regarding 50 inchs being a class or event. i agree with tom that this is an event. the cd of any esl contest can call any event that he likes as long as it is advertised in advance on the esl site. that being said, the esl contest cd is obligated to organize and run a contest that is consistent with the rules and goals of the esl. in other words, he can not make up some arbitrary, or silly, rules or tasks. from the flyesl.com site: GOAL OF THE EASTERN SOARING LEAGUE: Enhance the sport of radio controlled (R/C) thermal soaring through the establishment and maintenance of reasonable standards of contest operations. it is clear that the intent of the esl is to promote thermal soaring. a secondary goal is to increase the membership. in past years we have changed the dues structure to gain more members and we recently agreed (at the 2004 esl meeting) that we would support a hand launch series of contests within the rules that were hashed out on this, and other, site(s) with the goal of attracting that group of fliers as well. the idea had the goal of providing an organized venue(s) for hand launch fliers. the issue of what airplane you can fly in one of these events is just like the two meter events. you can fly any sailplane you like up to two meters in span and, in this case, any sailplane you like up to 1.5 meters. so, if someone wants to enter a hand launch contest, they can fly a 50 inch sailplane if they like. if the cd decides to provide awards for 50 inch sailplane finalists, that's fine, but i believe that the 50 inch flier must be scored against all the hand launch fliers to qualify for end of year points and standings, . my comment regading electric fliers may have been a little over the top, but i don't believe that the goal of the esl is to develop special interest groups. pb ps. a couple of years ago at crrc, one contestant smushed his unlimited ship and finished the contest with a hand launch sailplane. 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
