Don and All,
Lengthening OAL for LPP and OPP is a good proposed change.
Fred Rash
On 1/31/2016 11:00 AM, Don Slusarczyk don_at_slusarczyk.com
[Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>
> I think any new event needs to vetted at indoor contests before
> considering deleting any current AMA events. I am not sure if making a
> rule proposal for a new event and voting on it to be an AMA event is
> the correct way to see if people like it. Sounds more like throwing
> stuff to a wall to make it stick. I think the progression should be a
> new new event is proposed then see if people fly it, work out the
> rules issues if any come up after a few seasons of flying it, then
> move on to AMA adoption if appropriate. Some events I think are low
> participation because they are not flown at any contests.
>
> I think an interesting exercise would for people to look at the
> current AMA list of events and write down why they don't fly a certain
> event or what the do not like about an event. Perhaps that will lead
> to some conclusions. For example. I no longer fly Open Pennyplane as
> to be competitive you need a biplane and I would rather fly a wide
> chord monoplane but a monoplane needs to be longer and the rules wont
> allow so a wide chord monoplane has stability issues when very short
> so I have lost interest in the event. If monoplanes were allowed to
> be 24" OAL instead of 20" I would probably fly Open Pennyplane again.
>
> Don
>
> On 1/31/2016 10:05 AM, mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>>
>> Others have pointed out that we have too many events.
>> Now we have a proposal for adding a new one.
>>
>> Maybe we should cull a few that are no longer being flown before
>> adding new ones.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
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> Don Slusarczyk
>
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