[MT-ALES] Self Timing Contests?

[Montana ALES reflector]

At my age I need a timer/caller, the younger fellows can handle the self 
timing, but who handles the safety  of the pilots when all are landing?

just my option.

bob


On 8/26/2019 9:15 AM, Montana ALES reflector wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> 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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