With the 3DX and F3C competitions coming up I wanted to get others thoughts on safety.
A little background for those not from Australia we have a 9 meter rules where a model, under MAAA rules, can't be flown closer than meters to the pilot.
MAAA MOP014 6.5 Helicopter Flying: The MAAA requires that helicopters flying outdoors are not to be flown any closer than 9 metres to all pilots operating at the time.
The F3C schedule has a set of hovering moves which are performed at 10 m away from the pilot. This is all good and >9m away until the slow piros get out of shape and you can very quickly get <9m away especially if the wind is directly at you. The rules have recently been rewritten for this competition too.
My question here is why is the circle set at 10m from the pilot and not say 15m giving that little bit more leeway to account for errors that do happen, especially at sportsman level.
Next is the 3DX which has the follwoing int he K1.5 Auto description: "The manoeuvre will show consistent height loss, uniform forward speed and land as close as possible to a marker positioned 3m in front of the pilot on the field centreline."
My question here is how can we fly to a circle only 3m away when the minimum distance under MAAA rules is 9m? Surely this represents an unreasonable breach of this rule and safe flight, why do we create moves that are in clear breach of the MAAA MOPs?
I am all for competition flying as well as safety, what does everyone else think?
Safety At Competitions
Discussion in 'The Chat Room' started by Stephen, Oct 28, 2014.
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Discussion in 'The Chat Room' started by Stephen, Oct 28, 2014.
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