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Old 01-23-2008 | 01:00 PM
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Dave Wilshere
 
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Default RE: New IJMC rules.

Tommy

I know that two flight lines was talked about, the feeling was that it would put a lot of countries off hosting an event, think of the area we fly over, it would need to be a big strip-then what about the safety-do you employ spotters to watch the other line just incase a model goes out of control heading for the second line where the crowd are consentrating on that lines flying? Too dangerous in my book.

The Gyro thing I was against too, but the idea is we build the most scale like aeroplanes that fly in the most scale like fashion, many full sized aeroplanes have gyros...like many have said, you can all use them, make a rule " The model control system should include a gyro" we don't think about leaving out servos so why not?
I would be happy if the judges gave the same degree of criticism to the big floaty quaker/Junior 60 landing and taking off manouvres seen by some models. Scale flight...I couldn't stop smiling at the acceptance of something so "un-scale"

Dave Wilshere