New Takeoff/Landing Scoring

[Atwood, Mark]

Finally a sound thought on this thread.

Also, for those that are concerned with making the 180 turn to
land...there is nothing that says the turn has to be a constant
radius...you can shape it any way you like to line up with the
runway...remember...0 or 10, so the quality of the "turn" is irrelevant.


-M
Ps. I'd still rather see them scored :(


-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
On Behalf Of Ron Van Putte
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:03 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: New Takeoff/Landing Scoring

There comes the time when common sense needs to kick in in any 
situation.  Neither the old rule book nor the new rule book could/can 
cover every situation.  For example, if two pilots at a two-flightline 
contest finish their sequences at nearly the same time, it is obvious 
that they both can't land at the same time.  One often orbits off to 
one end of the field, while others do a racetrack pattern up and down 
the field until the runway is clear.  A strict reading of the rules 
would require zeroing the landing of the second pilot, because he flew 
in front of the judges more times than allowed by the rules.  However 
we didn't do that under the old rule book and shouldn't do it under the 
new rule book.

The strict interpretation of a rule isn't always best.  In the new rule 
book, the pilot is supposed to do two 90 degree turns after takeoff, or 
one 90 degree turn and one 270 degree turn.  However does a 90 degree 
turn require that the airplane's wings be level after the turn?  Is a 
180 degree turn nothing more than two 90 degree turns in which the 
wings do not return to level between the turns?

Ron Van Putte

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