RE: Re: Erv Rodemsky Pro/Am LPP

From: Ken Achée <ken_at_achee.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:53:02 -0600

And I was jealous of your sons’ abilities. They looked and flew great…

 

From: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of john_kagan
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 6:25 PM
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Erv Rodemsky Pro/Am LPP

 

  

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
<mailto:Indoor_Construction%40yahoogroups.com> , Carl Bakay <carl.bakay_at_...>
wrote:
>
> LPP PRO/AM EVENT
>
> This is a new event and unclear to many. We will be flying the Pro/Am part
Saturday, and the Sportsman flyoff of the amateurs on Sunday.

Yes, the Sportsman LPP on Sunday is simply intended to give the amateurs
another opportunity to fly their new planes. It will run concurrently with
the regular LPP event, and will not involve any significant prizes, so there
should be little incentive for the experts to fly in it. But the opportunity
to continue the experience from the previous day has the potential for huge
rewards.

I don't feel this Sportsman event has much risk of being a slippery slope
toward widespread non-BOM events, though. It doesn't involve a unique model
that might entice other fliers. You can't set records in it. There really
isn't reason why an "expert" would want to fly in it, regardless of whether
they should or shouldn't. And everyone will be flying non-BOM models, so
there is no chance of kid's own efforts being trounced by a daddy-built
plane.

That said, I strongly believe that BOM is an integral part of Indoor FF
outside of this one attempt to attract new participants. Even if a bought VP
hub might fall within the guidelines of a BOM rule model, I still wouldn't
use it in competition (I did buy one early in my F1D career and had fun test
flying it. Also, I do use Harlan bearings, so I guess I have a range between
what I find acceptable and what I don't). I guided my children's
construction of their LPP's last year, but they did the vast majority of the
work themselves - including gluing, handling razor blades and cutting film
with a soldering iron. Sure, there are ribs that aren't straight, the film
edges are a little ragged, and it definitely took longer than if I had just
made the models myself. But it wouldn't have meant the same thing if they
hadn't built their own planes.
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