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1UP
Key Veteran
Location: Claymont DE.

The pont is, if someone on the flight line and just burn a tank of fuel it's time to give it up to the next guys not to refuel and fly again !!! I seen this happen with the 72 MHz guys every year. The way i see it is ONE FLIGHT and then get off the flight station.
Inpounding DDS radios will be just more fun for us guys working the Inpound. I just love having power over you little people
With over 400 pilot is't not going to be ease on figuring out just what will happen when over 40 DDS radio are turn on ???
i read that if no cannel open it will not take to the rec.
(We just gonna have to get along


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JAMES
member of the HOT GIRLS thread
If it's worth doing, then it's worth over doing
03-31-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Sign Guy
Senior Heliman
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Last year was my first trip to IRCHA, and I can see why all of the concern of hogging flight stations. On Fri & Sat I waited over 2 1/2 hrs for my frequency for 1 flight each day. My feeling is that you can impound, give tags, pagers, pins, whatever and people are still going to "hog" a station, either 2.4ghz or 72mhz. At our funfly here in Vegas, on the 1st day there were complaints of hogging. On the secong day, the CD made a ruling to help with the "1 flight at a time" deal. He made the ruling that no fuel (extra batteries for the electric guys) be allowed out on the flight line. Granted we only had 6 stations vs. IRCHA's large number, but this eliminated people camping out on the flight line. The only thing allowed past the fence was start equipment and a "ready to fly" heli. This seemed to cause quite a few "rumblings" through the crowd, but it helped keep the flighline moving over the course of the weekend. I know there are many guys who have flight boxes with power panels etc. and they were asked to leave the fuel jug at their table. If you are just flying once, you don't need to lug the fuel out there anyway.

Just my 2 cents on the subject

Better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all!!
03-31-2007 Over year old.
 
 
steve9534
Key Veteran
Location: yakima, wa.

Flightline management

For a large event like IRCHA there will always be a problem with flightline management. If there are 400 pilots with 20 flight stations and everyone only keeps the pin/badge/clip/whatever for 15 minutes, it's still a 5 hour wait between flights. You might try having a sign up list where the pilots can choose a time to fly and sign up for that specific time. Each pilot can sign up for 1 time in the morning and 1 time in the afternoon to begin with and anything more will be dependent on there being open slots after giving everyone a chance to sign in. At least one would have some assurance that you could actually fly at a given time as opposed to the current system where you wait for hours not know when or where you'll get your chance. It will still require a dedicated crew of people to man the stations and make sure that folks don't exceed their time limit, but seems a better way to me. You could keep a list of "add-ons" that would be ready to go to a flight station if someone doesn't show or cancels. If someone doesn't show for their time slot and doesn't advise ahead than the rest of their times for the day should be cancelled. I'd add that the Tx impound never seemed all that helpful to me. The only time I ever got shot down was by a guy tuning the motor on his plank in the pits. An impound just ties up the transmitters of the folks who are going to follow the rules anyway. Hopefully it will soon be a thing of the past. For the smaller flyins I've been to, this is probably all a mute point as I've never had a problem getting time to fly even with 72mhz radios. steve.
04-30-2007 Over year old.
 
 
red_z06
Key Veteran
Location: Dumont, NJ

If you are allowed 15min, is it normal for electric flyers to swap out batt packs at the end of 4-5min flight for an other 4-5min back to back?

www.justinchi.com
04-30-2007 Over year old.
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steve9534
Key Veteran
Location: yakima, wa.

15 minutes

I'd thought of this, too. Seems only fair that you can do what you want with your 15 minutes. If the packs last 4 minutes and you're ready to do it again, then you put in another pack and use the time flying. If it takes you 14 minutes to get your nitro heli started, you get 1 minute to fly. I don't plan to take time off from work, fly 2000 miles, rent a car, pay for a motel, and pay the entrance fee to stand around waiting while you all try to figure out what's wrong with your heli and why it won't run. That needs to be done at home, not at the meet where 399 others are waiting. The system will only work as long as people are ready to go and use the time efficiently. steve.
04-30-2007 Over year old.
 
 
marc8090
Key Veteran
Location: Long Island, N.Y.

For those who have been to IRCHA before, how many flights did you get in each day? I just realized what Steve said is right if there's 20 flight stations, 400 pilots, 15 minute time slots, and each pilot flies once it's 5 hours between flights. That sucks. And they're expecting in the area of 600 pilots this year. That sucks more.
05-01-2007 Over year old.
 
 
w8qz
Veteran
Location: Walker, MI - USA

Even though there may be 600 pilots 'registered', that doesn't mean that all of them fly. I've met a LOT of people there who came to see the sights, watch, wheel and deal, and work on helis - but NOT fly at IRCHA. There maybe should be 2 categories of registration - flying, and non-flying. Only the 'flying' group would be allowed to get a frequency pin - ? (Still doesn't solve the 'channel hog' problem, though.)


Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.
05-01-2007 Over year old.
 
 
hoverking
Veteran
Location: Tennessee

3-4 of us are coming signing up and we dont even bring helis!
05-01-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Ace Dude
Elite Veteran
Location: USA

600 pilots might be a bit optimistic, especially if gas continues to go up.



05-01-2007 Over year old.
 
 
SteveH
rrProfessor
Location: Texas

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600 pilots might be a bit optimistic, especially if gas continues to go up.

Obviously spoken by someone who's never been there...I believe there were 547 or close that there last year. Most of the time, you could not fly even if you could get the pin and wanted to...there were lines at the flinging stations.

SteveH
Magnum Fuel
AMA76186
05-01-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Ace Dude
Elite Veteran
Location: USA

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Obviously spoken by someone who's never been there...I believe there were 547 or close that there last year.

Sorry to break it to you, but I've been to IRCHA several times. Including, back in the day when it was held in Ohio and they first broke 400 registered pilots. Almost ten years later they've finally broke 500 pilots. I wouldn't that call increase in attendance substantial. With gas hovering around $3/gallon and it's expected to go up and based on attendance over a ten year period my original statement is still valid.

If your crystal ball has the exact number perhaps you should have it start picking lottery numbers....



05-01-2007 Over year old.
 
 
marc8090
Key Veteran
Location: Long Island, N.Y.

Ok, so getting back to my question, how many flights would the people who have ACTUALLY been there averaged on each of the days?
05-02-2007 Over year old.
 
 
SteveH
rrProfessor
Location: Texas

It's not too hard to get some flying in on Thursday, or even a little in the morning on Friday, but Saturday is really tuff. I've seen lines at each flight station that takes 30 to 45 minutes to get to fly after you have the frequency and your equipment. I tried to fly a couple of times last year on Saturday, and would wait in line for a flight station, and before I got to fly, they were paging me wanting the frequency back. This year with the spread spectrum radios and no need for a frequency pin...your guess is as good as mine.

SteveH
Magnum Fuel
AMA76186
05-02-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Ace Dude
Elite Veteran
Location: USA

I've never flown on 72MHz so I've never had to wait for the pin.



05-02-2007 Over year old.
 
 
JAGNZ
Elite Veteran
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Well, a friend of mine just moved to Indianapolis so theres my accommodation sorted. Booking my flights now. Wahhhooo! Can't wait. All RR guys should wear some kind of RR badge or hat or something. Does Mark sell RR gear at all? If not, he should.

BTW - I am coming and not flying...

Jason Greenwood

Fury Extreme, 2X T600N's, Trex 500, DSX9 2.4
www.3dheli.co.nz
05-09-2007 Over year old.
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misskimo
Key Veteran
Location: Alaska 12 years before , mississippi for 31 y

well Ill be coming , and flying , just made my plane plans , YEH!

Tony

Do-Yo-Thang! !:~) Team ThunderPower, Minicopter & Spartan Gyros
05-09-2007 Over year old.
 
 
BOOGIE
Key Veteran
Location: LAFAYETTE LA

Were is the nerest hotel to the field?

Team PO-BOY
05-11-2007 Over year old.
 
 
4cyclic
Senior Heliman
Location: Montreal, Can.

How do we call to reserve golf cart ? anyone knows

John

Fly non-stop till your brain fizzles !
05-19-2007 Over year old.
 
 
monkey nuttz
Senior Heliman
Location: ft worth

mark fadley is the go to guy for the carts.
05-19-2007 Over year old.
 
 
4cyclic
Senior Heliman
Location: Montreal, Can.

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mark fadley is the go to guy for the carts.

would you have his e-mail ?

thanks

John

Fly non-stop till your brain fizzles !
05-20-2007 Over year old.
 
 
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