RC Combat

This morning, we started finishing up what we had left over from the day before. Luckily, that was only five rounds of GNAT. We were able to get those rounds done relatively quickly, as there were only three pilots competing. The points were getting racked up pretty well considering sticky is not allowed and so few planes were up in the air.

Today we started out with Slow Survivable Combat (SSC). George Pritchett was generous enough to loan a couple of planes to Nats newcomer Andrew Shkolik. That gave us four pilots to battle it out up in the sky.

Each heat of RC Combat lasts five minutes with a 90-second launch window prior to the call of start Combat. In those 90 seconds, the pilot must start their engine and be up in the air with a fully deployed 30-foot streamer. Once Combat starts, everybody converges on each other and a furball develops.