ORIGINAL: J_R
Hi Gordon
Couple of things. When I saw the rewrite of the safety code, I felt many items were still ambigious. My suggestion was to take the safety code, and someone who really and truly knows the intent of the rules, and send them over to the English dept at Ball State for the re-write.
Nothing wrong with that. Find the people that are intended to be affected by the rule, and ask them to participate in rewordng it - pointing out to them that it's better for them to help address the issue, than to have something imposed by someone else who knows nothing about the discipline(s) involved. Then take those suggestions public on a forum such as this and ask for any & all input. Use this as a way of trying to catch situations that your original group did not think about, including unintended side-effects, and rework the rule as necesary. The key point at that stage is to be open minded enough to take constructive criticism and understand that people pointing out holes in your argument are in fact doing you / us a favor by helping to fix "bugs" in the rule, rather than taking such input as a personal slight.
The other thing is, I guess, slightly off topic. mongo made a nice post about failsafes here
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_21...anchor/tm.htm#
You have the knowledge and ability to write an article on how to set a failsafe correctly. Why not write one and submit it to Model Aviation?
I'll think about it.
Anyway - you guys have fun with the rest of this dicussion... I'm getting ready to head off to the Reno Air Races, so will be spending the next few days fixing whatever my pilot decides to break, rather than being able to join in on the discussions in here. Have fun.
Gordon