Re: Re: Are there too many Indoor events?

From: <joshuawfinn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 01 Feb 2016 10:30:05 -0800

Don,
 

  I've found that the rubber weight restriction does help in some ways. You never have long motors getting bunched up or planes folding up because they've got too much rubber loaded on them. Yes, the weighing is a pain, but it comes with practice.
 

 I've built a couple OPP monoplanes and it seems like they could be competitive. There are tricks to be performed and such. It's probably more a thing of just getting the prop tuned correctly though. They can definitely absorb a lot of power, that's for sure.
 

  I also have come to tremendously prefer VP over non-vp. Flaring props are a pain in the neck, constantly changing with humidity and if you break a spar, then the blades don't act the same, so forth and so on. And you have to have a different prop for ever ceiling category. VP lets you get exact adjustments to stay out of the ceiling and you only need one model and one prop regardless of ceiling height unless you're flying F1D where fixed pitch rules the day in Cat IV. And VP hubs don't react to humidity. Well, carbon ones don't.

Received on Mon Feb 01 2016 - 10:30:06 CET