Hunt for the "Hunski"

The Hunski combines the traditional line and spot techniques. It encourages beginner and low time pilots with the relative ease of obtaining “some” landing points for making it into the “box” and builds on this skill to work toward precision and higher point scores by landing on the line or within the hundred point spot: “The Hunski.”

The Box.  Picture this at the mowed grass area at the left end of the Farragut runway. This area would be demarked by two upwind cones and a safety line and two cones or soft bendable "noodles" which would demar the downwind end of the box.

The box is approximately 120 feet wide and 80 feet deep. Landing within this area (upright) gleans 60 landing points.  Hitting the downwind noodle also get 60 points.

Pilots must stand outside of the upwind safety line. Models landing beyond this safety line would score zero landing points.  Inverted models also score zero landing points. Timers would use the cones and noodles for sighting to determine if the model is within the landing box. The upwind end of the box will have a rope safety line. We typically have a rope safety line.

The Landing Line.  Parallel to and Five feet inside the safety line will be another rope end line, which demarks the upwind end of the landing lines. There will be four or five thirty foot long landing lines perpendicular to this end line which are about 20 feet apart and 20 feet inside the sides of the landing box. Landing upwind of this line but within the box scores 60 points. To receive more than 60 points the model must come to rest within 30 inches of a landing line.  A 30-inch landing measure stick will be provided for each landing line. This stick will be marker a point for each inch from 61 through 90 points. This stick will measure from the aircraft nose anywhere along a landing line as well as from the downwind end of the landing line (radius method). Landing within one inch of the landing line will score a maximum of 90 points unless the nose of the model comes to rest within “The Hunski.”

The Hunski:  Fifteen feet from the pilot safety line along each landing line will be an three-foot diameter circle. This circle may be painted or measured with an 18-inch radius line secured with a nail. Landing within this “spot” will score 100 points:  A “Hunski.”

(OPTIONAL) The pilot who scores the most “Hunski’s” for the day will be presented with a special award the “Hunski Hat.”  This traveling award will be a hat characteristic of something Attila the Hun would wear and be inscribed with the words “I Tillad the Hunski” as in made the most landing marks (tills) in the Hunski Spot.

This page was last changed on May 23, 2008