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<p>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?</p>
<p>just my option.</p>
<p>bob<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Greg,
<div> 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
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<div>It does sound like folks would rather fly 2 groups of 2
with a timer/caller rather than one group of 4.</div>
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<div>Curtis <br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So we're getting small numbers at
the contests recently and I think we need to think
about self timing via our transmitters.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would guess that everyone has a
transmitter that can do this easily with a little
programming.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This way we can fly one Group.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Curtis<o:p></o:p></p>
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