[MT-ALES] Self Timing Contests?

[Montana ALES reflector]

I’d prefer 2 groups of 2, the idea of self timing makes no sense to me as there is a ton of margin for error when both starting and stopping the clock.

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Jon

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> On Aug 26, 2019, at 09:15, Montana ALES reflector <mt-ales at lists.webworks.net> wrote:
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> 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> wrote:
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> 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
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>> 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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