I'm perfectly willing to play by whatever rules are in effect. The reason I brought up the Mylar issue is that every person (outside of the established experts) who has ever talked to me about A-6 has asked why they have to be covered with paper. My standard answer is "I don't know. It's just the way it is".
Hopefully this is the last time I will ever use the word "rules" in an online forum.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:54 PM
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: A-6 rules change
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bill Gowen"
<b.gowen_at_...> wrote:
>
> All of these suggestions make perfect sense. But there is a big
problem. A-6 is a well established event. A number of people have
spent considerable effort in developing models that meet the current
rules and perform extremely well.
Isn't that a "big problem" for any event facing a rule change?
Consider the 100s hours of work some F1d flyers had to shelve when
rules changed--no comparison to something as simple as A6 (wah,
wah..)
<<I think the result would be an event that might draw in some
newcomers but also might lose some of the people who currently fly
the event.>>
I'll take the newcomers any day compared with a half-a-handful of
specialists perfecting the "beginner's event" for a decade or two.
But fortunately, the rules as they exist still attract a few
newcomers. Just don't tell them they won't be competitive with their
first few models--but that's the same story with any model class, eh?
>
>>a totally new event at the club level probably makes the most
sense, although the process would stretch into years instead of being
a quick fix.>>
Yep. I had figured A-6 was ripe to be introduced as a provisional AMA
event, but not anymore, what with all the unrest and impending rules
riots!
Mark F1diddler
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