Yeah, so it's a toss up: track or slow flight? You can't really have both. One works better in calm conditions, one works better in high wind. Somewhere in the middle is where I settled.

As for more power, I just learned that lesson the hard way. After 6 years, I finally ran out of power. Was it the climate conditions or my flying style? Probably a combination of both.

You would have cracked ribs laughing at the Nats then, because it was ridiculous. I mean obvious kind of ridiculous.

Oh well, "the" answer today won't be "the" answer tomorrow, that's for sure. The only constant in pattern is change. But that's a designer's dream, no?

-Mike