Helicopters need a place in a site to sit and run off the turns, I
tried helicopter at Akron once and once it got up into the girders it
was lost forever. ETSU has a spot in the middle by the louvers that
helicopters could site and spin so was popular there. Rantoul would be a
good place for helicopter and is on my Nats build list.
As far as experimental autogyro, you need to get a new rule book :-)
That was booted last rules cycle but is a prime example of passing an
event with no vetting. It was an attempt to fly indoor autogyro with no
fixed wing and if you look in old Zaic yearbooks you will see wingless
autogyros and low flight times around a minute or so. The fixed wing was
added to get them to fly. Some thought the fixed wing was "cheating" as
well as the "pinwheel" style rotor I started using. Some felt the rotor
did not follow the intent of the rules so may be part of the reason of
participation fall off in that class.
Don
On 1/31/2016 11:49 AM, mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>
> Hi Don.
>
> You could be right about low interest due to events not being flown
> locally.
> And yet even at places like West Baden you don't seen Helicopter or
> Experimental autogyro for instance, even when the events are on the
> list. (And I don't mean to suggest that these should be culled, they
> are just two events that popped into my head.)
>
> FWIW, every AMA event in the rulebook is available for Rantoul flying
> dates.
> We could easily add this A stick event too just to see how it goes.
>
> .
>
>
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Don Slusarczyk
Received on Sun Jan 31 2016 - 18:22:17 CET