what esc are you using? and what version of software is loaded in it. the newer version of the CC software enabled this with govenor , prior to that you could not have both.

Andreas,

The rule requires that the prop come close enough to a full stop that it is easily determined that the motor is no longer supplying power to the model.

The energy to stop the prop comes from the running motor. Once the motor has stopped there is no more energy to be used to keep the prop stationery. Thus the slowly windmilling prop.

Higher cogging motors may bring the prop to a complete stop. I would not base a motor choice decision on this factor alone.

This is how it should be.

Kim.

Hi Andreas

As I see it, you are safe as is, because on pages 31/32 the 2009 FAI Sporting Code describes the landing manoeuvre as fiollows:

4.2.15.17. Landing manoeuvre
Recommended entry procedure: from normal upright level flight at a height of 1.5 metres.

a) Start of manoeuvre: as the model aircraft leaves the height of 1.5 metres, plus/minus 30 cm, and with the motor/s and propeller/s stopped.

b) The descent segment: the model aircraft should fly for 1 full gliding lap with the motor/s and propeller/s stopped, measured from the start of the descent at the 1.5 metres plus/minus 30 cm height, until the point of touchdown. The rate of descent should remain constant throughout this whole gliding lap, from the moment that it leaves the 1.5 metres height until the moment that it touches down. The touch down itself should be smooth and either a "2 point" or a "3 point" touch down shall be judged as being equally correct.

Note: For the purpose of this rule, the word “stopped” describes a situation where the blades of the propeller(s) are actually at a standstill or are rotating so slowly that the individual blades can clearly be seen by an observer.

c) End of manoeuvre: when the model aircraft comes to a complete stop after touching down at the
end of the ground roll which is clearly in a forwards direction and in line with its normal flight
motion. The length of the ground roll shall not exceed one lap.

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Best regards

Hi All,
More importantly ... Thanks Peter for helping to define the rule sensibly!

Regards,
Dean P.