Re: Re: 2012 F1D World Championship Statistical Analysis

From: Fred or Judy Rash <frash_at_chartertn.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:03:16 -0400

Nevertheless, congratulations to you, Brett, John and the rest of our teams.

Fred Rash

On 8/30/2012 4:37 PM, Nick Ray wrote:
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> I supposed is good that people are talking about F1D. However, I do
> wish more attention was paid to how World Champs are run and flown.
> There are a number of variables outside of the model and rubber than
> greatly impact an individuals results.
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> A defending world champion fly's with a major advantage they are their
> own team. A national team is required to have all three of its members
> fly within the round. In Belgrade this meant that at least one team
> member was going to have to fly in the worse air. A team manager can
> either choose to share the best air by rotating the flight order or by
> giving to the best air to competitor they think will do the best. The
> later case is what the US did. This means thats not all the members on
> a team have an equal chance. The difference between Brett and John's
> high times could be explained by the order that they flew in.
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> Secondly, mid-airs play a large part in the out come of the contest.
> They can hurt if your at the end of a great flight or they can help by
> allowing you to restart a bad flight. There were probably over 50
> mid-airs in Belgrade. I remember Ivan Treger having three in one
> round. There is no trim flying during the rounds of the world
> championships. This means that if you do trim fly in the morning or
> evening you are trimming the model in air that is unlike what you will
> be flying in during the rounds. Judging by Treger's constancy I doubt
> that the mid-airs helped him, but I know for other competitors
> mid-airs restarted bad fights.
>
> The third major variable is steering. For better or worse steering
> typically speeds up the prop RPM. This means that the model climbs
> more than what it was trimmed for and spins off more turns than what
> it was trimmed to do. Depending on when one is forced to steer, the
> model may climb into turbulent air around the disk at the top and then
> head for a wall while hitting the ceiling, or it may dead stick 40
> feet above the floor because is average RPM was higher than expected.
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> Schram's winning flight was a no steer flight. I know that all of the
> US team members would have preferred to not steer because of we wanted
> our models to fly the profile we had trimmed for, but it never seemed
> to really work out. To keep from steering in Belgrade everything has
> to be perfect, the model, the rubber the launch spot, the wind and
> clouds outside as well as the temperature. I think that no steer
> flights are more of a perfect storm than anything that can be
> predicted consistently.
>
> Maybe that will give some context to the discussion,
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> Nick
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Received on Thu Aug 30 2012 - 14:03:18 CEST