Re: Re: AMA General Rules Proposals that will affect AMA Indoor

From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:10:13 -0500

Actually it's Juniors and Seniors in many model classes and catapult
gliders in all age classes. When I started flying gliders the Cat 1 and Cat
2 Open records were held by one set of flights with a standard class
glider. And of course the current Cat 1 Open records in both classes are
held by one set of flights with a standard class glider. At this point in
time my standard class Cat 2 glider outperforms my unlimited glider.

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:46 PM, Jake Palmer 82.jake_at_gmail.com
[Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Not only juniors, just primarily juniors. Most Open records are not
> obtainable without a model specifically built for the rules, so at least in
> indoor it would be extremely rare to break 2 records with one flight. This
> is much more common with juniors. I broke both the LPP and PP records in a
> couple categories when I was a junior, and I know others have done the
> same.
>
> On Jan 25, 2018 7:29 PM, "William Gowen wdgowen_at_gmail.com
> [Indoor_Construction]" <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Why do you say this proposal only affects junior class fliers?
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2018 10:18 PM, "Jake Palmer 82.jake_at_gmail.com
>> [Indoor_Construction]" <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> It looks like he simply added the words "and a possible national record
>> as well" without fixing the rest of the proposal. His examples are already
>> specifically disallowed by section 10 of the outdoor free flight rule book,
>> and his proposed revision has no affect on contest results anyways. This
>> means he doesn't understand the revision he's proposed, he doesn't know the
>> outdoor free flight rules, or he's worded the proposal in an intentionally
>> deceiving way.
>>
>> In any case we should be pointing this out to all the other contest board
>> members and voting against this proposal. We should also emphasize that
>> this will generally only affect junior age fliers, and it seems unwise to
>> pass rules that could potentially discourage them from competing.
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2018 4:33 PM, "wdgowen_at_gmail.com [Indoor_Construction]" <
>> Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> General proposal GEN19-01 is back up on the AMA website. This is the one
>>> that requires separate flights to set records in more than one event.... It
>>> affects all types of aeromodeling where records are kept. Here's the note
>>> from Tony Stillman:
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Contest Board members:
>>> This proposal would modify the National Records section of the General
>>> Section Competition Regulations. As such, only contest boards that have
>>> record activity as part of their competitions would be involved in voting
>>> on this proposal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a basic proposal, so it will follow the normal procedure for
>>> such.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony Stillman
>>>
>>> Flying Site Assistance Coordinator/Competitions- Technical Director
>>>
>>> Academy of Model Aeronautics
>>> www.modelaircraft.org
>>>
>>>
>>
>
Received on Fri Jan 26 2018 - 16:10:37 CET