nah, they will all be horrible....they are far tooooo small!










j/k!!

Sorry...I couldn't resist!


I've started practicing with my 85" yak, but my radio went on the fritz, so I'm grounded for a bit!

Yuppers you are in the SC region. Alot of good guys in the area to help ya out too.
MC

too small -yep --I would be at a disadvantage in a contest with the smaller ones plus I don't practice much anymore . but I thot I would give it a shot to see how it all flows together . Any of em will do it .

Thanks, cowboy; and for your earlier post regarding the sequence, as well. A clinic in Houston would be a GOOD thing... if ya know what I mean... :-)

Looks like not much has changed in the Basic sequence; the 2-turn spin is now a 1 1/2 turn spin, and the aerobatic turn has been replaced by a Figure 9.

My Extra will be ready for its maiden flight this week-end, and I'm eager to start practicing this stuff. I replaced the "good" servos in my Sukhoi with some cheap sport digitals, and the plane flies like crap now. I dorked it last week-end, anyway, on landing. Perhaps that's a clue. I don't think I'll even bother fixing it for a while. Anyway, the Extra should be what I'm looking for.

I guess my first major question is, do all ten manuevers have to "flow"... that is, the entry into the hammerhead must be started on the same line as the exit from the loop? Or are you supposed to fly to the end of the box and turn around before initiating the next manuever?

Hi Steve,

It's great to see you getting ready for the next season!! If Ryan is your "ranked competitor" coach, get all the time you can with him. He knows the deal.

The usual recommendation to all the scoring questions is to go to the IMAC website and download the judging guide. Spend some time reading it. It will answer a lot of questions you didn't even know you had!! The way to score the best is to know what the deductions are and then practice to remove the deductions. I've heard it said many times before, "Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." Unless you're practicing to remove the deductions, you're not gaining any ground. You have to know what they are to remove them.

The simple question to your answer is that the entire flight is scored from the time you leave level on your first maneuver to the time you get back to level after your 10th maneuver. The scoring for each maneuver stops when you return back to level flight at the end of that maneuver. That is the "flow" you may be speaking of. There has to be a level line in between each maneuver. There is no need to fly to the end of the box to execute a maneuver. You may need to space the maneuvers so that your entire sequence can be flown inside the "box". Practice will help you get the feel on where to place each maneuver so that they are balanced in the "box", but there isn't any judging criteria for where the maneuver is placed in the "box".

In your question about the exit line of one maneuver and the entrance line to the next maneuver, they should be the same. As soon as you get back to level at the end of a maneuver, the scoring on that maneuver stops. Any errors you make on the line in between maneuvers would be deducted on the maneuver you are about to fly.

Hopefully that answered the question!!

Good luck with the practice. Read the judging guide so you can work towards "practicing perfect".

Take care,


Dean Bird
2005 Tucson Shootout Intermediate Class Champion
2005 IMAC Southwest Region Intermediate Class Champion

Thanks. I gather that the answer is "yes". Okay; and I do have the judging guide. But I was thinking I should figure out HOW to fly the sequence before trying to polish my delivery...

No maiden this week-end. I've got a balance problem, and it will take a bit of effort to solve. Nothing major, but I'm not going to rush the job.

Yes, Ryan has offered to give us some pointers. Looks like we're going to run out of good weather before we can hook up with him...[]