Class Structure

[Bill Glaze]

Ron:
You are correct.  The figures you describe below were the 
compulsories..You were then cut loose to fly from a series of listed 
figures.(Remember?)  You "cherry picked" the list; the rudder-only guys 
had a lot fewer figures of which they were capable; the Class 2 (Mickey 
Mouse) contestants could do more, due to their movable elevator.  . 
(Sort of) The class 3 folks, (multi-channel) had better be able to do it 
all if they wanted to place.  I sure like the good old days, but not 
with the good old equuipment.
Ah, reminisces.

Bill Glaze

BTW: remember the crossover point for the "8" was ideally centered 
exactly over the flier's transmitter antenna.  It'd get you disqualified 
today!

Ron Van Putte wrote:

>
> On Jan 10, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Wallaceaero1 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> That sounds good in theory, but not sure that would work out too well 
>> at a contest. Most folks are just too busy, especially people running 
>> the contest.
>>
>> Our club, The Aeroguidance Society, has had very good luck with running
>> "pattern primers" twice a year in which the experienced pattern 
>> fliers in the club provide detailed explanation/demonstration of the 
>> sportsman sequence and get the guys plenty of practise with coaching 
>> and feedback. At the end of the day we run a simulated contest with 
>> judges in place. Last year we were able to get I think 5 guys to 
>> enter Sportsman at our contest. The real trick is to get them 
>> interested enough to travel to some other events ;)
>
>
>
> John Fuqua and I ran a Pattern Primer for club members yesterday and 
> the attendees (6) had a great time.  When the 'chalkboard session' of 
> describing what R/C aerobatics is all about was over, we had John 
> demonstrate the simple maneuver schedule I put together:  TO, enter 
> box, straight flight out, 1/2 reverse Cuban 8, straight flight back, 
> exit/reenter box, 2 loops, stall turn, one roll, exit box, landing.  
> Then four of the attendees, who wanted to try their hand at the 
> maneuver schedule with judges in place, did their thing.  Nobody said, 
> "That's too tough for me".  They did say, "It's not as easy as I 
> thought and I need to practice".
>
> BTW, How many of you remember way back before Turnaround when the 
> lowest class routinely did, straight flight out, procedure turn, 
> straight flight back, horizontal 8 and so on?  They had turnaround 
> before the rest of us did!
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
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