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- Looking at Fab Feb Results
- Maxmen takeaways
- I need help with Sidus F1B Programming
Looking at Fab Feb Results
The results for the Fab Feb events is displayed Links to Google Sheets. I got a call from a flyer who was not sure what to do with what ever is shown in the link.
Sorry that we should have realized that this might have a bit obscure for some. There are some suggestions.
When the link comes up it is an online spread sheet called a Google Sheet. There is one sheet for each event , this is shown with tab or label at the bottom of the screen. Typically it will show F1A , meaning the results of the F1A event. Next will be another, F1B, then F1C, etc. When you click on these it will show the details of that event.
If you want to get a document down on the own device you can down load it. The way you do this is to go to the File option on the menu line on the top left of the page. Click on the file choice and select options. There are a number of choices but I will mention 2. One is Excel which will down load it Microsoft Excel format and you would use Excel to display it locally. The second would be in PDF format, a normal document you would look at with Adobe reader. When you pick PDF it will show the event you were looking at you would look at in nicely laid out PDF format. On the right hand side at the top will be the blue button EXPORT, pick that and it will be down loaded. Just under the Export button there is an Export select box probably displaying the word Current meaning the event you were looking at such as F1A. . If you change that word to the next choice Workbook, it will download all the choices for all events such as F1A through F1Q and the clicking on the Export will download all events.
If all else fails – ask son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter, or some other smart kid.
Maxmen takeaways
From: Aram Schlosberg
by Aram Schlosberg
1/ Crashing under power. C should be flown at least 50 meters away other events. At the Pan Am a C model’s stab was probably in a glide setting and the model with a motor running narrowly missed an Israeli B flyer under full power. At the Maxmen, Blake Jenson wisely placed a wide gap between the C and P flyers away and the B flyers.
It would also be helpful to demonstrate to the timer(s) that an RDT transmitter is strapped to the flyer’s arm or is held by an assistant.
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2/ In Q, almost everyone reaches the flyoffs using 3 Joules/gram. In fact, the extra altitude saved me from dropping a thermal round at the Maxmen.
We should drop the energy budget to 2J/gr for ALL flights, as they already do at most contests in Europe. Hopefully CIAM will make it official.
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3/ Huge flyoffs. At the Maxmen, 31 out of 51 B flyers maxed out while only 4 out of 37 A flyers did the same on the previous day. The event with the larger flyoff should be held on the first flying day (Friday) to give more wiggle room in running its flyoff. In other words, flip the events flown on Friday and Saturday.
(The real issue of large flyoffs is their very long flight line, not excess performance. This could be addressed by altimeter flying in two shifts – where half the flyers advance to the final flyoff.) ///
Editor’s observation, the number in the flyoff is sometimes a function of weather, at the Maxmen this year F1A handled the windy weather not as well than B,C or Q so did worse on the windiest day and both the weather and number to hard to predict.
I need help with Sidus F1B Programming
From Kevin McCue
I bought a couple planes at Lost Hills and support equipment including a Sidus programmer. I can’t get the programmer to successfully communicate with the timer in either plane, Neither could my mentor at Lost Hills. His programmer worked readily with both planes at Lost Hills. Now I am home in Tucson and stuck with unflyable planes. I could use some help from a knowledgeable person.
Thanks
Kevin McCue
kevin@themccuesonline.net