[F3A-Discussion] F3A Rules proposals

[Derek Koopowitz]

The intent is to have the ready boxes right next to the runway thus
avoiding the long carry to the flight line.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Atwood, Mark <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
wrote:

>  I’m a little concerned that they’ve replace one safety problem with
> another.
>
>  In South Africa, the lack of a Noise test circle on both sides of the
> pilot station, combined with starting the 8min clock immediately following
> the noise check, cause MANY competitors to SPRINT while holding a running
> airplane, approx 40yrds to the far side of the pilot so they could take off
> into the wind.  One of the Japanese callers almost bit the dust in this mad
> dash to make time (the unknowns were extremely long to fly so every second
> counted.)
>
>  They’ve eliminated the flight clock concern…they’ll get their full 8
> minutes not, but instead, we’ll be running with the plane to get it to the
> take off circle from the ready box once the motor is running.  And before
> anyone says it’s a big issue with electrics, MANY are still flying glow
> (including one from our team) but also there has been problems with ESC’s
> not initializing on the first try.   Gerhart Mayr lost a round of the
> finals because it took 2.03 min to initialize his ESC.
>
>  Seems like there should be NO clock running moving the plane from the
> starting box to the take off circle to avoid this.
>
>
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>  On Apr 14, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Derek Koopowitz via F3A-Discussion <
> f3a-discussion at lists.f3a.us> wrote:
>
>  Did the attachment make it with the email?
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Dr. Michael Harrison, DDS <
> drmikedds at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>  I am scrolling down.  What am I looking for?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* F3A-Discussion [mailto:f3a-discussion-bounces at lists.f3a.us] *On
>> Behalf Of *Derek Koopowitz via F3A-Discussion
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 14, 2015 3:17 PM
>> *To:* f3a-discussion at lists.f3a.us
>> *Subject:* [F3A-Discussion] F3A Rules proposals
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I sent out an email on March 13 and never heard anything.  There are a
>> number of rules proposals that will be voted on in April at the CIAM
>> meeting and I'd like feedback on them.
>>
>>
>>
>> You can view the rules in the attached.  I have supporting documentation
>> that I will send separately to keep the size down.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any/all feedback would be great to have!
>>
>>
>>
>> -Derek
>>
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