tender napisal/-a:Hallo Mitja,
please see the picture and tell me, what do you think about this concept of the rules. "Red Point" is readable immediately after landing or by blinking LED or by simple reader with joined numerical display.
Palo
Palo, I am affraid that any of electronic "gadget", even if works perefctly, (I am not against height &climbing limiter) as it is a kind of "measuring device", FAI will want to see also the posibility of calibrating of these gadgets, by some official and competent party, so this really makes life harder.
I still speak in favor of my idea, presented here and on
rcgroups, that is very primitive and simple.
Only restrictions are Power and Weight loadings of the model and that gives straight and clear result of what Amps and chosen voltage are alowed for each of different models. For ease of using that rule, one should use (know) nominal short time burst current of the batery and its nominal voltage without load. Competitor need to find out just proper battery pack using data of wing area an RTF model weight. Of course there are some factors involved in equation, but they could be asily found in the graphs.
I think this is not hard to find out, neather to check for the competition jury.
This way, any of type (size, weight, building materials) of the sailplane will have equal oportunity to went up on these 30 sec (or whatevwr situable time or height will be chosen in rules), and then starts to soar (or sink down in bad weather)
Mitja
