17-01-2013, 10:14 PM
On Sunday the 17th of March there will be something different at PRCAC’s McCoy field. We have been very fortunate in securing the support of the NSW Pylon association to hold an introduction to Electric Pylon racing day!
This will be a great opportunity for our members and invited guests to have a go and experience the fun and excitement of Electric Pylon racing, with out the stress of it being at a formal competition, but with all the official timing gear and proper set up used by the NSW pylon association guys.
Pylon racing model airplanes is great fun at every level! It’s not an overly difficult thing to do and you don’t have to be an elite pilot to fly your plane around the course.
All you have to do is be able to fly your plane safely, be willing to have a go, learn something new and most of all have fun. There will be plenty of experienced pilots to help out on the day, to call for and answer the questions of pilots new to pylon racing. There will also be opportunities to practice flying the course before the 17th of March.
Even if you don’t feel confident flying the course please come along and take part. Not only is pylon racing great to watch but there are plenty of opportunities to be involved other than flying. There needs to be judges/timers for each plane in the air and there will also need to be at least two people with radios observing the exclusion zone while races are being run. It would be great to have people take a bunch of photos/video of the proceedings as well. When not flying pilots will also be doing some of these things. It's quite an interesting and busy time once it all gets going.
There will be time for normal flying, trimming and test flights while things things are getting set up and after racing is finished as well.
At least two classes of planes will be racing on the day. One class will be Trojan/Sports. And the other will be FFC (Fun Fighter Class).
Trojan/Sports class will be based on Parkzone Trojans and similar type models. Models with similar performance will be put in the same heats and a formula (yet to be devised) will be used to equalise the results. So that non-standard aircraft and standard Trojans can compete on a comparitivly level field, we’ll use a handicap system. It could be as simple as the time multiplied by the watts required to run the powerplant flat out on the ground. This will be finilised before the day and I’ll post it up here so we know where we stand.
The Fun Fighter class will be based aircraft from Hobby kings Fun fighter range of models and other similar machines like the Moray which is also from HK. This is obviously going to be the faster class and those flying in this one are well advised to have some practice before the day!!
There are some pylons in the field box, we will be getting them out quite a few times before the 17th of March for practice. So please if you see them set up give us a yell and a have go. If you want to set them up and have a go please post up on this thread or let either, SRL, Claudio, Frank or my self know and we’ll give you hand.
More information to come, I'll post up more as we get things underway
Please post up any questions or comments.
Please also have a think about what class or classes or planes you may want to fly on the day. there's plenty of time to get something together to fly before the day, it's two months from now
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This will be a great opportunity for our members and invited guests to have a go and experience the fun and excitement of Electric Pylon racing, with out the stress of it being at a formal competition, but with all the official timing gear and proper set up used by the NSW pylon association guys.
Pylon racing model airplanes is great fun at every level! It’s not an overly difficult thing to do and you don’t have to be an elite pilot to fly your plane around the course.
All you have to do is be able to fly your plane safely, be willing to have a go, learn something new and most of all have fun. There will be plenty of experienced pilots to help out on the day, to call for and answer the questions of pilots new to pylon racing. There will also be opportunities to practice flying the course before the 17th of March.
Even if you don’t feel confident flying the course please come along and take part. Not only is pylon racing great to watch but there are plenty of opportunities to be involved other than flying. There needs to be judges/timers for each plane in the air and there will also need to be at least two people with radios observing the exclusion zone while races are being run. It would be great to have people take a bunch of photos/video of the proceedings as well. When not flying pilots will also be doing some of these things. It's quite an interesting and busy time once it all gets going.
There will be time for normal flying, trimming and test flights while things things are getting set up and after racing is finished as well.
At least two classes of planes will be racing on the day. One class will be Trojan/Sports. And the other will be FFC (Fun Fighter Class).
Trojan/Sports class will be based on Parkzone Trojans and similar type models. Models with similar performance will be put in the same heats and a formula (yet to be devised) will be used to equalise the results. So that non-standard aircraft and standard Trojans can compete on a comparitivly level field, we’ll use a handicap system. It could be as simple as the time multiplied by the watts required to run the powerplant flat out on the ground. This will be finilised before the day and I’ll post it up here so we know where we stand.
The Fun Fighter class will be based aircraft from Hobby kings Fun fighter range of models and other similar machines like the Moray which is also from HK. This is obviously going to be the faster class and those flying in this one are well advised to have some practice before the day!!
There are some pylons in the field box, we will be getting them out quite a few times before the 17th of March for practice. So please if you see them set up give us a yell and a have go. If you want to set them up and have a go please post up on this thread or let either, SRL, Claudio, Frank or my self know and we’ll give you hand.
More information to come, I'll post up more as we get things underway
Please post up any questions or comments.
Please also have a think about what class or classes or planes you may want to fly on the day. there's plenty of time to get something together to fly before the day, it's two months from now
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Also, what occurred to me in that video is that we have two perfectly good pylons to race around already... 
Just in case.
