Troy's K-Factor column

[John Pavlick]

Yeah, me too. I like seeing things in print (especially the photos) but I
hate to throw things out so I end up with piles of model mags. With a photo
quality printer and a CD burner this problem is easily solved - save the
docs on CD-ROM and print the pictures you want to see. CD's take up less
space than the printed copies so there's more room for airplane stuff. I
wonder if it would be more cost effective to distribute mini CD-ROMs at the
contests (to interested spectators) instead of the hard copies we have now.
If you burn the CD with a generic name for the document (like:
"kfactor.pdf") and don't finalize the CD image, you can re-burn the CD with
a new issue (same filename) if there are unclaimed copies. I've done this
with software archives under Win XP and it seems to work fine. You can't
erase the file, but you can overwrite it as long as the name is the same.
Better than throwing out a box of last month's K-Factors (that cost money).
John Pavlick
http://www.idseng.com


 -----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
Behalf Of Bob Pastorello
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:12 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Troy's K-Factor column


  Two things.... One - Troy's writing is prolific, informative, and
well-structured.  Kudos to you, Troy!!! Great work.
      Two - The quality of content, and durability of an electronic file
makes that my preference, hands down.  IF there could be some cost-saving
schema for the NSRCA of giving an "electronic-only" option, you'd get my
support for that!!!

  (FWIW)

  Bob Pastorello
  NSRCA 199  AMA 46373
  rcaerobob at cox.net
  www.rcaerobats.net


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Grow Pattern
    To: discussion at nsrca.org
    Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:01 AM
    Subject: Re: Troy's K-Factor column


    I've noticed that quite a few of us read the K-factor on-line these
days.
    Especially if they have a cable modem. I know I always do because it is
    there, and because I use my computer and web-sites a lot.

    My question is, "do you then read the paper version when it arrives?"

    Regards,

    Eric.

    P.S. Nice article Troy.


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Pavlick" <jpavlick at idseng.com>
    To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
    Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:21 AM
    Subject: Troy's K-Factor column


    > Troy,
    > I downloaded the latest K-Factor (haven't got it in the mail yet) and
I
    > saw
    > your 'Model Building' column. Nice work! The control linkage details
are
    > excellent. There are a few guys in my club (not pattern pilots) that
    > should
    > read this. I've tried to explain some of these things and even showed
them
    > how I set things up in my airplanes, but they just don't seem to get
it.
    > Maybe seeing it in print will help. This is good stuff to have in the
    > K-Factor. Hope to see more in future issues.
    >
    > John Pavlick
    > http://www.idseng.com
    >
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