Personally I feel that this is a good solution for most competitions. We have known for a long time now that resistors on F3B winches was a very good move to make. Although F3B winches are much more powerful than 20kg offcourse.
For F3B and F3J (yes we use winches in some F3J comp.) we still use normal F3B force offcourse.
Sadly I have never tried your US-style winches with braided line so cant comment on all issues. But will during Nats I guess ;-)
Airplane ticket to Nats is ordered...
Hilsen (Regards) Jojo www.grini.no
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Steifel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 7:52 PM To: John Cc: RCSE Subject: Re: [RCSE] OVSS and Line Breaks
I don't think a weak link works. You want to keep things moving a link only serves to slow things down.
I think the FAI solution works great. Limit the power on the winches. The resistored winches cut the power down and then everyone is nearly identical in power. Now does this solve line breaks... somewhat... it certainly cuts it down a considerable amount if you lower the power and level the playing field. But breaks will still happen especially on windy days.
In the ESL we noticed that new spools from Memphis twine had bad spots in it. After clearing the breaks, the lines rarely broke. We don't respool between contests any more, only when the line gets ragged. This is consistent with my experience with my own clubs and also retriever lines too.
3 years ago at the nats I hit the pedal and broke the line. before I got any tension. Fortunately I got another winch. But the no relaunch policy doesn't allow for bad retrieves, or a previous bad launch. What about someone who launches before you and pulls the knot to exterme. or stresses the ring. The no relaunch doesn't work. BUT neither does letting the person relaunch with all the markers in the air. Either let them launch again or relight the group. If you let them relight it must be point the plane to the ground and land... no dilly dallying.... anyone caught slowing up for a reading of air should forfeit their flight.
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