THE REAL SCOOP - Reno Unlimited Course

[toldjaso]

Re: THE REAL SCOOP - Reno Unlimited Course

Nope. Distance around a set course.. Period! No angle of the dangle BS! Any measurement other than true distance.. Tom Gribbon, bless his soul, it just plain wrong!

Racing has to always be a point to point thing. If someone can bend that point and get there faster... COOL!

No way anyone can quantify that into a rule that can or could be enforced!

Back to monitor.. going to sleep monitor..

LOL!

Hey Wayner and all you gearheads, why not just paint a centerline between the pylons and the out of bounds (or whatever they call the deadline now), measure that, and call that the length of the course? Everyone knows you can't fly directly over the pylons, and you can only go so wide, too.
There, fixed that, no problem.

[Bill@Interstell]

Re: THE REAL SCOOP - Reno Unlimited Course

lol... exactly!!! speed is measured by distance and time... so if your "measuring" an object against a distance that it could NEVER occupy then your measurement is wrong! it can't can't be explained any simpler than that...

So what you're saying is, we should just put a GPS in each airplane so we know exactly how far each flew (and why not make that in 3 dimensions?) between the start and finish and let the contest committee sort it out after the event? I'm sure Tiger would have been happy with that on Saturday. The new calculation isn't actually achievable either as it would still involve contact with the pylons.

Nope, I'm still back calculating speeds like Idaho Cowpony.