Landing (was Re: Re: Spoilers for Pattern Planes?????)

[Jerry Budd]

>Personally think TO and Landing should remained scored.  This is 
>what seperates Pattern Pilots from other disciplines many times. 
>The ability to control the airplane in the air(especially after 
>rotation and before touchdown) is IMO as important as the ability to 
>stop a spin.

I always thought that the biggest thing that separated "Pattern 
Pilots" from other disciplines was the patterns we flew.  Performing 
takeoffs and landings are about the only thing we really have in 
common with other modelers.

>I don't think of straight and level flight as aerobatic but it has 
>been judged as such for a number of years.  Still think it is 
>probably the hardest "thing" to do though.

Straight and level flight (other than in Novice/Sportsman) has never 
been an aerobatic maneuver (hey! to EVL-1).  Rather straight and 
level flight is the delimiter between aerobatic maneuvers.  In the 
same sense takeoffs and landings are the delimiter between "pattern 
flights".  They really have no relevance to the patterns we fly.

Jerry
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