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  1. Dave Lacey & Tom Kerr Memorial Contest Rescheduled for October 18-19
  2. Weather balloons and parachute probes
  3. Never managed to get a Eye Test included
  4. UK POV

 

Dave Lacey & Tom Kerr Memorial Contest Rescheduled for October 18-19 
From: Andrew Barron

Dear Jim Parker (America’s Cup Coordinator), Bobby Hanford (National Cup Coordinator), Don DeLoach (NFFS Digest Calendar), and Roger Morrell (SEN),

Due to field conditions, the Contest Director Aram Schlossberg has decided to postpone the Aug 23-24 meet scheduled for Barron Field in Wawayanda, NY. This is the Dave Lacey & Tom Kerr Memorial contest, for Americas Cup and National Cup events.  We have petitioned the AMA to hold the rescheduled Lacey – Kerr meet October 18-19, with the same sanction.

Moreover, we remind that the Harvest Classic AC/NC meet (continuing the tradition established by John Clapp) is September 27-28 also at Barron Field.

It will have the same Saturday & Sunday schedule as previously announced for our Wawayanda AC and NC meets this year.

Apology for the belated notice of this Lacey-Kerr meet postponement.

Thermals,

Weather balloons and parachute probes 

From: Jeremy Fitch

Weather balloons and parachute probes.
NOAA sends them up/drops them by the dozens  (or did when they had funding).  Are they obligated to push the self-destruct button when they go out of sight of the “pilot” who launched them?  Obviously not, but whatever rationale they are using, can’t we use it also? Should we call our models atmospheric testing devices. Checking for thermal activity, you know.

Never managed to get a Eye Test included

From: Miguel Angel Gordillo

Hi.
Many times, at the WC technical  meetings and other places, I have proposed, with no results, that the WC timekeepers have to have a minimum proven visual acuity, and all of them to use the same model of binocular. That is the only way to have  some kind of equity.
A lot of work and money is involved into reaching a WC. I think that this issue should be fixed
Regards
Michel Gordillo
UK POV

From:John Carter

All rdt and drone rules generally and certainly in UK the remote pilot ie the guy flying launching model must have line of sight of model nothing to do with another not the timekeeper .

So if the remote pilot at launch stars a down wind trek following the model so long as he can see it un aided its in sight very simple
Appears to me to many are over complicating a simple set of rules
jc uk

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