Barry
The general rule in all indoor competition and in just about any other type of competition is "if it doesn't say you can't then you can".
If you enter any event at USIC you can expect to do battle with many of the very best fliers in the US. At my first USIC I flew a 3.1 gram limited penny plane and finished in 37th place.
Nothing about my A6 model bent any of the rules in any way. All you have to do to get down to 1.2 grams is to buy some 4 psf wood. It's readily available. There's really no good reason to expect a 2.5 gram model to compete with a 1.2 gram model.
Everything that I know about A6 I've learned from asking on this list. Nearly all of the info that I received was in the form of public messages. If anyone really wants to be able to fly this event on a competitive level a good first step would be to listen to what the masters have to say.
On a different note:
After hearing some of the controversies about this event I've decided against getting involved in trying to make it an AMA event. From here out I will fly A6 when it suits my purposes and keep my mouth shut about it otherwise.
----- Original Message -----
From: barrysholder
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:01 PM
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] A-6 rules
As a relatively newcomer to competitive 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.
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Received on Fri Jun 09 2006 - 20:59:21 CEST
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