Just curious … unless there is a problem whereby most competitors don’t know how to install and configure gyros, why would those who think they are being beaten by a gyro not just install gyros in THEIR models in order to re-establish a level playing field ?

In other words, if “a good pilot with a gyro is very difficult to beat”, but you put 20 of the best pilots with gyros together, they are still gonna come out ranked 1 -> 20 somehow, right ? What causes that ranking, and how much does that process and results-set differ compared to when those exact same 20 best pilots compete without the gyro ?

That’s not sarcasm BTW, I really want to understand.

I realise that the gyro smoothes out the flight in order to make it look better, but there again, so can e.g. expo - and I haven’t heard any suggestions that all competitors must fly without expo, rates, flight modes, mixing, or a host of other common techniques that the purist could argue are obscuring some aspect of a pilot’s flying skills by helping to mask imperfections that might otherwise show up in his flying. Why is a gyro (a NON-RUDDER gyro, at that), so much more of a threat than any of the other techniques that are in common use ?

Gordon