ORIGINAL: rcplanenut
ORIGINAL: HIGHSTRUT
ORIGINAL: rcplanenut
We have no rules about flying a pattern. The purpose of this rule is to limit 3D flying because it bothers the old fart$ who don't even fly. We also try to stay out of the way of the other flyers, as they have not made any complaints. It's only the old fart$ the don't fly who are complaining
Clubs added these rules back in the sixties and seventies when multi-channel radios were introduced, thereby extended aerobatics came to the club fields and had to be controlled in some way. 3d style flying goes back further than you think, it was just labeled 3d when QQ Somenzi started winning contests with his style of flying. Labeling can sometimes make things to be evil to some people, maybe we should go back to calling it AEROBATICS OR FREESTYLE.
All types of modelling and flying is good for the soul and meant to be enjoyed, and kept that way into the future generation.
It would be better that you posted your problem and then told us how you solved the problem satisfying most all involved. Then us old fart$ would know how to solve a similar situation when it occurs as we become older.
Good luck with your endeaver.
If you look at my first post you will see that I have stated my problem. Someone in our club has proposed a rule change to ban/limit 3D flying. This has been tried before in the past at our club. Since there was no definition for 3D it would be difficult to enforce this rule because there would be many different inturpratations of what 3D is( so which one's are right and which one's are wrong). I am trying to get this rule change voted down, just as I did in the past.
My definition of 3D is "keeping the plane in the air when it is going too slow to keep it in the air"
Really, the standard definition I've always heard and used is flying on a stalled wing.
The most common 3D moves are hover, harrier, rolling harrier, and some spins, and combinations of
all of the above.
If the members are so nit-picky they can't decide what is 3D and what is not,
you guys have more problems than just this.
Good luck.