With an outdoor contest, you get to contest for the price of one. The flying
and the walking contest.
Last summer at the free flight contest in Poitou, Moncontour I had to walk
at least 3km every round to pick up my model. 7 rounds long. But with a
sixth place it was worth it ;)
Kevin
2008/11/1 Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo_at_iki.fi>
> >
> > Because someone like Mark Drela, or Joe Wurts, who can read thermals
> > like the print on this page could kick your butt even with Pirelli
> > rubber. And they don't even fly outdoor rubber, LOL.
> >
> Yeah, and then comes the final fly-off in the dead calm of the evening.
> What do you then do with your superior air picking skills? Then it is -
> tadaa - the trimming of the model, winding of the rubber, that
> eventually counts. See YouTube and find the video of Kulakovski winding
> 5 motors during the 10 minute fly-off period for world champs in
> Argentina, 2005. I bet he did not do that just to have a fresh motor
> every 2 minutes, but rather select for the decisive flight a motor that
> took the largest number of turns and still gave good peak torque.
>
> > 'Cause outdoor fliers are *WIMPS*! Real FFers fly indoors, where it's
> > nice and warm. And there's no wind.
>
> Yeah. In recent years I have carried a GPS unit with me, gives nice
> direction to the model. It also records all the movement on the field
> during the day, and typically reads 10+km at the end of the day, on a
> windy day in could be 20+. That is something like 15 miles. Walking
> around on variable terrain, often soft ground, or as the case is often
> here in FInland, where we fly of frozen lakes, walking across clear,
> slippery ice or skiing in ankle-deep snow. Without ane pre-made tracks,
> but on pristine snow. Compare that to indoor, where you have to walk 20
> meters to pick the model. I can do that too, but bet that (pure) indoor
> guys would collapse on their skis after the second round, due to pure
> exhaustion. Wimps, yeah. I'd rather compare it to biathlon, where to
> have to balance the physical excersice to the mental one, for a good
> outcome.
>
> -Tapio-
>
>
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