A-6 rules

From: barrysholder <barry_at_signandart.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:01:57 -0000

As a relatively newcomer to competetive indoor model building it seems
to me that you might want to keep the rules to A-6 somewhat simple to
perhaps attract more people to this hobby. Seems to me that if you
start trying to figure out all kinds of ways to get around the rules
that have been laid down and rely on the builder/flyers ability to
TRIM an airplane and make it fly rather than try to concote all kinds
of way to twist the rules, then you are just going to have the same
bunch of people showing up for the competition year after year. I flew
A-6 at the USIC and had 3 HEAVY models that were nowhere near
competitive. I don't have the building experience that all you guys
do, so I didn't have a chance, and to a certain extent it was somewhat
intimidating to fly my 2.5g models against 1.2's. But if you guys are
going to make this event into a pro event maybe it wouldn't be worth
me trying to make a 1.2 model because, if I got to that point, then
there's a whole new slant that has to be overcome for me to have any
kind of chance. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought A-6 was supposed to be
kind of a stepping stone into more competitive modeling. You guys
probably think this guys full of hot air/too bad he can't build
better, but this is just how I see it.
Received on Fri Jun 09 2006 - 17:07:49 CEST