[MT-ALES] Self Timing Contests?

[Montana ALES reflector]

I like the idea of self timing.  The only issue I can think of is the 
count down.  I can set count up or count down timers on my Spektrum DX9, 
but I don't know about playing the voice files every second during the 
last 20-30 seconds of the flight.  I guess I'll have to play around with 
it and see what I can or can't do.

--
Greg

On 8/25/2019 6:48 AM, Montana ALES reflector wrote:
>
> So we're getting small numbers at the contests recently and I think we 
> need to think about self timing via our transmitters.
>
> I would guess that everyone has a transmitter that can do this easily 
> with a little programming.
>
> This way we can fly one Group.
>
> So like yesterday we had to go out there 10 times to fly five Rounds 
> If self timing we could only go out to the line 6 times and have flown 
> more rounds.
>
> I think for the Futaba transmitter I can program the timer to start 
> when the motor starts then make a second switch to stop that after 
> landing.  It may be a second or two off from an actual timer but 
> shouldn't make a difference in the overall results.
>
> What do you folks think?    The negative is that we lose a bit of 
> camaraderie when having a timer/caller and that person being able to 
> point out who is going up or down elsewhere in the sky?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Curtis
>
>
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