Re: Re: Getting newcomers started in indoor FF

From: Norm Furutani <tilka89_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:48:31 -0800 (PST)

Hi Andy,
I've watched you make huge improvements in your flying and I was wondering what brought you to FF in general and more specifically, indoor?

- Norm F., drying out from a long weekend in Lost Hills.

--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Andy <gymflyer_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Andy <gymflyer_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Getting newcomers started in indoor FF
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 3:02 PM







 



  


    
      
      
      My short answer is that its borderline. Long answer; it depends on how much work we want it to take. I've been flying bi-monthly for 5 months now, and I've built the same model (Lew's A-6 from IMS) three times. 2.2g, 1.9g and finally 1.55g. The first two were using the wood included with the kit, the last required me to find and buy 4-5# wood at 15$ for 50 sticks. I think the wood was the bulk of the low-hanging fruit, short of finding some lighter CP (IMS lists it at 600g/100sq inch.) So, I'll probably eventually make it out of sheer stubbornness, but but I probably won't enjoy it as much as just accepting 1.55 and working on my rubber management skills.



If 1.2 is the price of attracting the best flyers into a single class then I'm inclined to agree. If you want to segregate things into novice/open classes, then I think the novice class limit could use a bump to (you guessed it) 1.5g :-)



my $.02

-Andy



--- In Indoor_Construction _at_yahoogroups. com, "Don DeLoach" <ddeloach_at_.. .> wrote:

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> Andy

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> Would you say 1.2 grams for A-6 is a reasonable weight target?

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> Thanks for the input.

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> --Don D.

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> Exactly. As a novice (2:47 A-6 PR) I'd rather be a small fish in a big pond.

> Being beat is the happy price of getting to pick their brains. If an

> experienced flyer deigns to fly a novice class, the more the merrier; just

> don't over tweak the class out of the reach of novices just to keep it

> interesting (i.e. 1.2g A-6) See you in the gym.

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