Ik kwam onderstaande tekst tegen in het tijdschrift RC Model World van februari 2015.
Boeiende ontwikkeling en ik denk niet echt tegen te houden.
F5J Rule Changes
I was present at the FAI CIAM meeting in Lausanne earlier this year and was impressed by the number of international representatives who were keen to introduce new technologies into aeromodelling classes. This could be either by the modification of existing classes or the creation of new ones. The need to attract young newcomers to any sport, in order to see it have long term growth and prosperity is pretty obvious and model flying is no exception. It follows, therefore, that young people, who have spent all their lives using every bit of technology they can get their hands on, may well baulk at the idea of coming into competitive model flying classes where they would be required not to use any flight sensors and associated telemetry, to enhance performance. Opinions as to how and what might be done to include such on-board assistance varied considerably.
Following much discussion and voting, F3 R/C glider classes did not allow any changes to existing rules but F5 electric gliding classes did make changes.
From January 1st 2015 ‘augmented stability systems’ (gyros to you and me) are
allowed in F5J.
Not allowed is the use of a vario, or any form of autonomous or pre-programmed flight. So you cannot, for example, use a GPS or waypoint navigation system to preset a flight pattern directly to a series of known lift generators, fly in lift indicated by a vario, followed by a return-to-landingspot function.
As ever it will be interesting to see how these changes are adopted by flyers and how they affect F5J. Importantly, for those of us who fly other classes with an F5J
model — eSoaring or ALES, for example — will be the need to disable any stabilisation
system before flying!
Finally, you may be wondering how the use of, or a ban on, any of the above technology can be policed? You are not alone!
Boeiende ontwikkeling en ik denk niet echt tegen te houden.