Re: A program to support and promote F1D in the US (v2018)

From: <dweigt47_at_gmail.com>
Date: 05 Apr 2018 15:43:25 +0000

F1D has more issues than finding mentors and rare and out of production tools and supplies.

I probably never will be an active indoor flyer, but thought I should know the definition for a legal F1D. Personally, as someone who never competed in FAI events, I find their labels unhelpful...

Where to find the rules for F1D? How about my good ol' AMA website? After poking around it for a while, I found it said to refer to the FAI rules. No link, no info on where to start! FAI is flown in this country, clearly, so why not list the rules somewhere, or at least provide a link? A link might be best, as any copy on the AMA site could be out of date, a link to the FAI rules should be current.

Maybe I gave up too easily, but I still don't know the rules that must be met for a model to be an F1D. How are you going to interest people in an event without an accessible definition of it?

The majestic flight of these models as seen in videos is awe inspiring. But, which models qualify as F1D? If I wanted to make a basic model that fit the F1D category, though certainly not competitive, what would it take? I gather from lurking that there's no such thing as a simple entry level F1D: that people develop their skills in other events.

I know that at the highest performance levels, it takes a lot of work to gain a small amount of additional performance. But, how hard would it be to make a model to the F1D rules that had the potential of flying half as long?

Don Weigt
AMA 17042
Received on Thu Apr 05 2018 - 15:51:51 CEST