Re: No touch LPP flying in Cat I

From: Yuan Kang Lee <ykleetx_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:58:35 -0000

We had our club contest this morning. Boy, that is a difficult place to fly. Vents, wires, and lights all hang at around 19 to 20', and these things crowd the ceiling, which is may be 21'.

John Alling won with a very impressive 5:59. I came in second with a 5:44. There were 6 fliers. I'll post the full results when I get them.

To fly 6 minutes, you need to do light banging and hope for the best. I was conservative in my earlier flights. I backed off a lot and the climb to 20' was 1 minute. The best I could do flying conservatively was 5:20. I tried three motor sizes: 1.8g later shortened to 1.6g and 1.1g. The best turned out to be 1.6g (around 13"). In later flights, I backed off less, and the climb to the ceiling was only 30 seconds.

John Alling flew a Cezar Banks LPP. He used a .085" 1.6g motor.

-Kang

 

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Yuan Kang Lee" <ykleetx@...> wrote:
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> The 16:14 is the famous flight by Warren Williams, done at Luther Burbank Middle School.
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> I have it on my list of things-to-do to visit Mr. Williams and ask him how he did it. I've heard multiple re-telling of the flight, but I'm waiting to hear from the man himself.
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> Don Deloach owns the Senior record at 9:56. He has told me that it was scrubbing.
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> I understand that at the EAA contest, the LPPs were flying at about 43' and not scrubbing. Leo won with 9:19.
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> I don't know exactly how to extrapolate these data points to 22' no touch, but first, I'll ignore the Warren Williams flight. Something like that ain't going to happen.
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> From Leo's flight, I'm thinking that 6:30 would be a really good no touch 22' flight. We will see.
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> Will let you all know how we do.
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> -Kang
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Kagan" <john_kagan@> wrote:
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> > --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "calgoddard" <calgoddard@> wrote:
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> > > Kang:
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> > > The AMA records for LPP for Cat. I ceiling height are:
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> > > Junior 7:43
> > > Senior 9:56
> > > Open 16:14
> > >
> > > I am not sure what "open" means. I can't see how some other class of person could do six minutes better than the best senior.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Carl,
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> > In AMA (United States model aviation governing body) age divisions, Senior is something like 16-18. Open is the equivelant of the FAI "Senior". It gets confusing.
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> > 16:14 was a once-in-a-lifetime Cat I flight. That kind of time rarely happens under Cat III!
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> > I'd think that 8-10 minutes would be a great no-touch LPP Cat I time, but I'm just guessing.
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