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Hi all.
We had a successful Electric Scramble at Victoria Park today. The 5 flyers including myself proved that it wa a fun competition and we demonstrated it could be done with quite a range of planes. My biggest challenge was to work out how long it would take my Radian to glide back to me with out any wind blowing to slow it down - it seemed like it was never going to stop and I often had to dork the nose down at the expense of losing my canopy, which I had eventually had to tape down. I also had to work out a home path that avoided a possesive Magpie attacking me.
Once the above was sorted out by about 3 or 4 - 2 minute periods. I was able to bring the plane back to close to me and quickly relaunch. I was please to say I came 3rd.
Keep an eye on the event calendar, and your inbox as we will run another event as soon as we can get a spare date.
Cheers Robert Gunn
ps The rules of the competition is that you can use any electric plane and launch and fly for a maximum of 2 minutes (120 seconds) until a working time of 30 minutes is complete. Any flight over 2 minutes is scored as 2 minutes so you penalise yourself. The winner will have the greater number of seconds as a total.
Hi Greg
I think catching counts, but I will wait for Greg Potter to comment since he dreamt up the idea.
btw It was 6 flyers, I can't count - cheers Robert
Not too sure I like the safety implications of catching an electric model. All to easy to knock the throttle in the heat of the moment.
Cheers, John
Fair comment.
The plane I had in mind was a pusher wing 800mm span with only a 5 inch propellor (200 grams take off weight with only a 50 watt motor). Plenty of front edge wing to grab onto.
I guess landing close to ones feet would be pretty easy with a model like this....
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It would have been good to compete in this. I was sorry I missed it - I had a party to go to that morning .
Also with the rules - does catching the plane count as a landing? That would be the quickest way to get a turn around? I guess if all the flights are around 1 min 30 to 1min 50 then make sure the last flight is landed 1 second outside of the working time (assuming the clock was stopped during the time the plane was on the ground).