More rules and more restriction is never the way to go. An argument an
be made for any aspect of the model that should be regulated for
"fairness" or "equaling the playing field" be it rubber, VP props,
covering, balsa wood quality, who has access to more places to test fly
than another, eye vision, hand eye coordination, winding abilty, etc....
Less rules is what is needed not adding more. All this talk about Y2K2
but indoor FF existed just fine before any plastic covering was ever
used on indoor models. When Y2K2 came around I proposed lifting covering
restriction on events like EZB, and Int Stick as my reasoning was that
the covering weights were similar and what will happen when Y2K2 runs
out then those who have it will have an advantage, so by allowing
microfilm to be used you would not be at a weight penalty at all and
microfilm is much cheaper than Y2K2. My approach was not to ban Y2K2 but
allow other covering choices in those events so more freedom of choice.
It was voted down. Now there was a vote taken on Y2K2 by the Indoor
board as to if it was considered "commercially" available since it was
an experimental roll of film and some AMA events require the covering to
be commercially available. At the time there was suppose to be another
bulk roll of the film so it was allowed as another roll was in surplus
but it seems after several years it was thrown out so the promise of
lots of future Y2K2 went down the drain and that is when the trouble
started in availability. Personally I fail to see how trying to ban
Y2K2 being meaningful in any way on a 1.2 gram model or the upcoming 1.4
gram version on the basis of it giving a competitive edge. I do not
want to sound like a broken record but 65cm models were much bigger and
longer and were 1 gram and flew on much heavier rubber, I used 14" loops
weighing 1.4 grams and launched at torques up to .7 in oz on 14" motor
sticks. Going form 9" chord to 7.8" and span from 65 down to 55cm and
increasing the weight from 1.0 to 1.2 gram and much smaller cross
section rubber made the models much easier to build to weight with
either plastic or microfilm, the two I build for USIC 2013 were ~1.1
grams with VP and I had to ballast up. So I am having trouble
understanding all the posts about how a few mg covering difference from
Y2K to OS film is of such significance on a model that weighs
comparatively so much to its predecessor, even more so with the upcoming
1.4 gram weight. The way I see it now, to get a model to balance with a
7" stick under the new 1.4 gram rules you probably need a microfilm
covered wing, and a Polymicro covered stab to get the CG back far enough!
Don S.
On 4/17/2014 6:43 PM, Nicholas Ray wrote:
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> I think our thrift may actually be working against us. We officially
> ran out of Y2K2 10 years ago, but the people who were around back then
> have had not seen fit to change the rules until they experience the
> problem themselves.
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Don Slusarczyk
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Received on Thu Apr 17 2014 - 16:52:23 CEST