04-04-2016, 07:39 PM
What a top weekend !!
Had a brilliant day on Sunday Set up the Quad Racing course, Quite a few people flew around it.
It has been a bit experimental to see weather FPV quads and planes can share our field and fly at the same time as the usual fixed wing machines. I think it's worked pretty well so far. The course was certainly challenging enough with a couple of really good straights and a few tricky corners. It didn't seem to affect the normal use of the strip and both types of aircraft apeared to cohabit pretty well. There was an earlier incident of a mid air but that was before the course was set up and happened out over the reeds so I'm not going to count that in the category of plain bad luck.
Every one flying quads seemed to be using a spotter which is aligned nicely with the rules and everyone, I hope, seemed to be happy enough with the arrangements? I think if we actually have some heat racing with say 3 or 4 quads in the air at once we can stop and do just that for the duration of the race but I cant see this as a problem at all. A race only goes for a few mins and we can easily work around racing with time slots. Does every one agree, are there any issues I'm missing? Please voice your opinions and let us know what you think? Did it go well on Sunday ?? There was certainly a good crowd there I think I took the last paring spot
Had a brilliant day on Sunday Set up the Quad Racing course, Quite a few people flew around it.
It has been a bit experimental to see weather FPV quads and planes can share our field and fly at the same time as the usual fixed wing machines. I think it's worked pretty well so far. The course was certainly challenging enough with a couple of really good straights and a few tricky corners. It didn't seem to affect the normal use of the strip and both types of aircraft apeared to cohabit pretty well. There was an earlier incident of a mid air but that was before the course was set up and happened out over the reeds so I'm not going to count that in the category of plain bad luck.
Every one flying quads seemed to be using a spotter which is aligned nicely with the rules and everyone, I hope, seemed to be happy enough with the arrangements? I think if we actually have some heat racing with say 3 or 4 quads in the air at once we can stop and do just that for the duration of the race but I cant see this as a problem at all. A race only goes for a few mins and we can easily work around racing with time slots. Does every one agree, are there any issues I'm missing? Please voice your opinions and let us know what you think? Did it go well on Sunday ?? There was certainly a good crowd there I think I took the last paring spot
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