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

[Earl Vincent]

I have witnessed many pilots that should have the rudder control down a
little almost take the judges
heads off on some cross wind take offs, and have heard cheers from the pits
when a pilot has skillfully landed without incident in once again the same
hard cross wind. If the wind blew straight down the runway at every contest,
I would say why score it. In gusting cross winds I feel the score is
important to reward the pilot that shows he has better control of his plane.
More so in the lower classes this seems to be where refinded rudder inputs
should start. JMO.
Earl Vincent
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Budd" <jbudd at QNET.COM>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:52 AM
Subject: RE: Landing (was Re: Re: Spoilers for Pattern Planes?????)


> >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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