[MT-ALES] Self Timing Contests?

[Montana ALES reflector]

Greg,
  Good point.  I have an .mp3 timer on my phone that I can play.  I would have to modify it a bit but right now it will give me a 10 second countdown to launch.  This gives me time to start the audio, pickup the plane and be ready to launch.  Then the transmitter would start a timer once power is applied.  If I don’t make my flight time just stop the timer on the transmitter when I land and read the time and ignore the mp3 timer on the phone.  If I were to make my time then the mp3 file will count me down and I can hear the seconds early or late on landing for the time and ignore the timer on the transmitter.

It does sound like folks would rather fly 2 groups of 2 with a timer/caller rather than one group of 4.

Curtis

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On Aug 25, 2019, at 11:31, Montana ALES reflector <mt-ales at lists.webworks.net<mailto:mt-ales at lists.webworks.net>> wrote:

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.

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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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