<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Wow! I find it hard to believe
that someone would own and fly a plane that they in essence cannot land.
That is a beginners mistake and I see it alot at my club, and we
call it "Too much plane for the pilot". Usually this happens
with a persons second airplane of his RC career, not someone at a competition.
We all bung a landing now and then ( as if evident for the constant need
of replacement chin cowls) , but I have to seriously question that if at
a contest a pilot cannot land a plane they brought, should it be allowed?
If it is too much plane for the pilot, the pilot need to step down
his plane or learn to land it in PRACTICE, before his thumbs are shakin'
at a contest.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I will once again cast another vote
to score T/O and Landings knowing the odds are in my favor that "others"
will not a second time sneek around the majority to enact personal agendas-but
thats a differnet topic......</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When flying RC planes of ANY type there
are only two required manuevers...T/O and then Landing.</font>
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Gray Fowler<br>
Senior Principal Chemical Engineer<br>
Radome and Composites Engineering<br>
Raytheon</font>