Multi-Rotor Challange coming March 23 & 24, 2013

[Murocflyer]

Multi-Rotor Challenge coming March 23 & 24, 2013

Saw this on another forum and definitely an event I'll be attending.

2013 MULTI-ROTOR CHALLENGE!

Multirotor aircraft are storming the market! This emerging category constitutes the fastest growing segment in RC aviation and we are proud to bring you the latest breaking multirotor news. The Palomar RC Flyers will hold the Multirotor 2013 Challenge at the Johnson field in Fallbrook, California on March 23 – 24! This is a national challenge that will include pylon racing, heavy lifts, an obstacle course and other competitions for multirotor pilots flying quadcopters, tricopters, hexcopters and other multirotor variants. Qualifying rounds will be flown on Saturday the 23rd, and the Multirotor Finals will be held Sunday morning. But fret not fun flyers – there will be plenty of time during the weekend for you to fly your multirotor copter! The field, which includes a 600 foot paved runway, is on Panke Road and is easily accessible from surrounding communities. The event will include workshops on first-person-view (FPV) installations as well as flight stabilization systems. For a flying field site map, please visit www.palomarrcflyers.org. Sponsors include Innov8tive Designs, www.innov8tivedesigns.com, and Heli Pilot magazine, www.helipilotonline.com. For more information, please email Lucien Miller at lmiller@innov8tivedesigns.com.

 

[Murocflyer]

From the same thread:

For right now, some of the events we are planning are as follows:

Lifting Competitions:

These will most likely be in 4 classes. Right now I am planning to have two events with two weight classes in each event. One will be highest percentage of payload as a function of machine weight, and the other will simply be highest weight that you can carry. In the first category, any size machine can compete. A 2 pound machine that lifts 3 pounds would get the same score as a 20 pound machine that lifts 30 pounds. For the second class of greatest weight, obviously larger machines would have an advantage.

Each of these categories will have two sub-categories, Dead-Lift and Controlled Flight Lift. In the dead lift, the craft will simply have to pick up the weight about 5-6 feet to get out of ground effect, hold it there for a specific amount of time, probably 10-15 seconds, and then land under full control. For the Controlled Lift, the craft will have to pick up the weight, fly a figure-8 pattern around 2 poles, and then come back in land. The whole flight should take less than a minute. In all weight lifting events, battery weight will be considered part of the payload, and not be counted as part of the empty machine weight.


Pylon Racing:

This category will most likely have two classes. The “Stock Class” will be flown with machines of 450 to 500mm, with 2217 or smaller size motors and a 3-cell 2200mah battery. The idea for the Stock class is to have a level playing field where anyone can compete. The “Unlimited” class will allow pretty much anything, as long as it passes a safety inspection and demonstrates controlled flyability. The pylon course will be two poles about 200 feet apart, and the race will begin with a standing start to a 10 lap race. Pylon cuts will receive a 1-lap penalty and double cuts will result in elimination from the race. Fastest time will win each heat and the winners will advance to additional heats.


Spot Landing Competitions:

This will be an autonomous event where the craft will take off and fly up in the air about a few hundred feet away, and then an “Auto-Landing” mode kicked on to see how close to the original starting point they can return.


Obstacle Course Competition:

This will be a series of gates, limbo poles, and possibly sheets of plywood with holes cut in them that pilots will have to fly through on a timed course. This will have a maximum size limit on the machine so it can comfortably fit through and around the obstacles. Whoever makes it through the obsticles the fastest without hitting any of them will win. Missing or hitting an obsticle will result in penalty points that will be added onto your time score.


Another event we might do is a block stacking event where a hook would be attached to the bottom of the multi-rotor, and it would be used to lift blocks of foam or cardboard boxes and stack them into a pyramid shape. This would be more of a fun event just for bragging rights.

Saturday night we intend on having a Night-Fly, and we will have some awards for things like Best Light Show and Best Night Fly Machine.

We will also have special awards for the Peoples Choice on the coolest Multi-rotor, farthest distance traveled to the event, Largest Machine, Smallest Machine and things like that.

Our intent is to get some industry support from multiple multi-rotor companies and have a nice assortment of pilots raffle prizes available, as well as have a vendor’s area where companies can show off and sell their products.

If you have any other ideas for an event like this, we are open to suggestions.

You can send any info requests or good ideas to lmiller@innov8tivedesigns.com and I will be happy to look at all of them.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing a lot of you at the event!

Lucien Miller
Innov8tive Designs