[NSRCA-discussion] Gryo's in Pattern?

[Jon Lowe]

This defeats the whole point of the sportsman pattern: to fly straight lines, establish angles, and to put the plane where you want it, not where it wants to go. Most sport fliers can't fly a straight line if their life depends on it. New pattern flyers are amazed when I make them practice straight and level flight over and over before I left them try manuevers. After awhile, they see the point.

We have a guy in our club who flies gyros all the time. When they are on, he can fly beautiful lines, slow rolls, point rolls, etc. Turn them off, and he's all over the sky. Sportsman would be won by someone who could set up their gyros the best, not by someone who had the most control of their airplane. So basically, intermediate would become the entry point for pattern. So we'd have to dumb that down so that people could learn to fly their planes.

Jon
On Friday, January 18, 2019 tim pritchett via NSRCA-discussion <tjpritchett at aol.com; nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:
On the additional subject of gyros/stabilization use in pattern, we posted a Poll on the D2 facebook page asking:
So, what would you think about a rules change proposal that allowed gyros in Sportsman and Intermediate, for any plane below 1.8M (70.9") span, and length?

The results  thus far are:  16 for,25 against
My comment would be that Intermediate is too competitive for this, and we should/could restrict gyros to Sportsman only in a proposal.  Club is not an AMA class, so we can already do anything we want there.  Any other comments?  
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