Whitmore

Hullo chaps, Martyn pointed me in the direction of this thread so I thought I drop by. We will be running a 'postal' duration Challenge on the BARCS forum as soon as we have a few models flying. This is a proven format - the DLG version has run for some years. The idea is that you post a time and if it remains unbeaten for 14 days you win the round. If someone else posts a better time, the round continues for another 14 days. A new round resets the time to zero. The competition will be open to any 2 metre glider, foamie, mouldie or F3-RES as long as it is launched by the prescribed bungee Hi-Start. If participation warrants it, we will split the challenge into Open 2m and F3-RES classes. The idea is that a postal challenge will provide a focal point for those interested in 2m and F3-RES flying and if there is interest we hope to run some actual F3-RES competitions next summer. The F3-RES class is developing a bit of a buzz. It's certainly more accessible than the hi tech mouldie dominated classes, at least in cost terms. It's perhaps not a total beginners class, rather something that would appeal to the general modeller who would like to dabble in relaxed competition. There's also not really anywhere else that an own designed, own built model can be competitive. So the purpose of this initiative is not to increase participation (although we hope it will) it's simply that the models are pretty darn cool Jon