Thinking about hitting a few Pattern contests next year. Flown some IMAC (Sportsman) over the years and thought I'd give Pattern a try. I can make it through the 2011 Intermediate sequence with my electric-powered Venus II, but only if I fly the pattern a little tight and even then with little time to spare. I'm using 3300mah batteries and could go up to 3,800 or 4,000, but don't want to go any larger than that.

So, and I'm asking this of all the guys who fly at all levels, is pretty much everybody who flies electric Pattern in the same boatlittle reserve after completing a sequence? And are there scenarios where you have to wait to land because maybe somebody else is on the runway? In IMAC sometimes you have to go into a holding pattern either before or after you fly your sequences to wait for another competitor who may be on the runway or completing their sequence in the same air space, so you definitely need extra flying time.

Well, just wondering how it works compared to IMAC.

Thanks.

Tim