A couple of comments on the woodie/moldie thread:
1) Thanks to the organizers for proposing this event. It should be great
no matter what aircraft are flown. Really looking forward to this one.
2) I think when we talk about woodies or moldies we're may also be
differentiating by performance types and not exclusively by material
types. Differentiating by materials is an obvious way to do it at the
sign-in desk. But in the air, what's really the difference? Woodies tend
to be lower wing loading, minimum sink floaters while moldies tend to
higher loadings with camber changing ability to hunt and then core well.
Neither is 'better' in an absolute sense. They both reflect a flying
style preference and that's great.
I'm also reminded that Muncie can have days of very spotty light lift.
And I'm painfully reminded (frequently) that on those kind of days,
planes like AVAs and Bubble Dancers leave a lot of us moldie guys in the
dust.
Go for it, woodies. Nothing in the rules says they're not capable of
beating anyone if the conditions are right.
- Dave R
"Flying something is a lot better than flying nothing"
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