[MT-ALES] TALES Demo Results

[Ford Rollo]

Thanks, Curtis.  Sorry I missed it.

Ford


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Ford Scott Rollo
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> On Sep 24, 2018, at 6:55 AM, CURTIS SUTER <suterc at msn.com> wrote:
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> TALES demo complete.
> The forecast was for rain in the morning till noon then turning nicer.  So we originally were going to fly three rounds and meet at 10am then lunch at noon.  So I changed it up to lunch at noon and fly at 2pm.  So all morning it barely rained a drop, went to lunch then hit the field about 1:30pm and about 2pm we were soaking wet, well not quite soaking wet but wet.  Ugh.  It was one small shower that had to work its way through then it was beautiful and warmed up nicely.  
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>   So we flew three rounds…. and well I'll let you look at the attached spreadsheet.  The spreadsheet is only completed formatting of three rounds  so the rest of the rounds the spreadsheet hasn't been updated.  So if you put in seconds past the task time it'll only score max time.  Type Yes in Landed out and it'll zero the score even though a time is entered.
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>   My first flight were my timer and I were slow in getting the watch reset for the next launch and I ended up running out of window.  No worries that's what the demo was for…figuring all this out.  Thus I was 18 seconds short.  If that issue didn't happen I would have maxed the time.  Also, Greg Douglas zeroed the first flight due to a damaged model he quickly repaired while we flew.  We didn't have time to wait on him with our late start.  He's a good pilot and undoubtedly would have made all his times.  Thus we'd have had a three way tie at the end of the contest.  We also noted that CAM's worked great as you could just land and launch but Alti's you needed to disconnect power and reapply it to get the limiter to work again so that too up too much time in a 1 minute extra Window.  So we need to get rid of Alti's for this or increase the Window time a bit.
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> So even though we cheated a bit with airplane sizes, it just wouldn't have mattered.  The lift was pretty abundant.  We also flew 30 second launches and 100m but even 50m and 20 seconds we'd have all maxed.  I skied out from 20 feet on one flight.  
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> So in my opinion after sleeping on it that we need either or both some precision timing and/or landing.  Maybe make the landing in/out for minimal points.  Jon has other opinions he may share.
> Of course a day where the lift was as abundant it'd mix things up more but still I think landings and timing may be useful.  I noticed I was sloppy with my landing for some reason which won't help other aspects of my flying i.e. ALES/F5J.
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> Oh, I read this from someone's post on RCGroups last night:
> "Landings are also a safety factor: planes come in and land in a predictable and orderly fashion when everybody lands accurately."  
> Having the pilot stations helps with that but I was till sloppy with my landings.  Lazy I guess.  Hmm.
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> I think having 5 points in/out landing and precision timing will take care of it and separate the scores more so.  I have no DLG/F3K contest experience so maybe this most likely three way tie was a fluke.
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> Anyway, I think the format was very well received and folks enjoyed it a lot.  We really liked the smaller inexpensive planes.  I hope folks get to building this winter now!
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> A discussion may start here on RCGroups:
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> https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2968754-Yellow-Jacket-Build-Log-for-TALES-Competitions/page7 - post40264459 <https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2968754-Yellow-Jacket-Build-Log-for-TALES-Competitions/page7#post40264459>
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