How do we diferentiate between
"Fly as fast as you can from pole1 to pole2 for the judges to stopwatch"

being used for PPP verification,
vs being used as a contest of speed , aka RACING!
<that may require AMA set spectator safety distances & hardhats for all within certin danger distance>

Perhaps we can all avoid the racing safety when 'informal racing' by just calling it a PPP velocity qualifier... uh, PPP velocity qualifier with 1st - 3rd place awards. Lets run this by the folks in the PYLON forum and see if they think we can just willy-nilly stopwatch planes from Pole1 to Pole2 without nobody wearin hardhats and not use set safety distances to people. Sure the safety rules for such activity are not prohibitive, but they need to be read & used.

It is just one way for the PPP guys to race
<"The 5 of us will each 'PPP-Qualify', the lowest time 'clostest to failing' gets to wear the speed badge till the next race 'qualifier'. " >
without abiding any race safety on hard hat use.


Otherwise, laying out ~300' of runway in the new Legendary Urban PPP Field might be a tight fit for the guys that are the ones that will actually have to do this: The (urban) PPP Clubs that fly FFF3d in a 100'x200' lot behind the supermarket.


Maybe we can use the Pitch Speed method,
and just ignore the way overpropped planes (overpropped batteries) can gain 30-50% RPM once upto speed.

I like the Paintball method,
Have a paintball marker chrony'ed to 88 and shoot the plane from behind.
If it outruns the ball it is a Violator.


However, since we were all were just reading how Muncie told a guy the club would be ok if they didnt police the PPP, why bother making the club buy a Radar or PitotPressure device when they can just ... do nothing.[sm=thumbs_up.gif]


How do we tell if the PPP is under 60 or not.
I think that is a great question. Of course I am biased on that, since I asked that question in a couple of threads months ago.