Good points all around. I think people take different things away from a contest. Some just go for the camaraderie, some go to win, some go to see how they are doing against their peers. I personally don't think that using a Picalario puts you ahead of the rest of the pack. You still have to make the right flight decision, you still have to work the lift, and most importantly, you still have to land.
However, if you had a GPS/heading lock unit that put the plane on the 100 every time...it would bother me because the real reason I go to contests is to watch grown men cry when they flip their plane on a downwind landing :-) JE -- Erickson Architects John R. Erickson, AIA 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