2019/2020 Group Builds - The way ahead

[NARSES2]

I thought I'd lay out my initial thoughts for the 2019/2020 Group Build calendar. Nothing's set in stone but this is the way I think things will pan out.

Chris

The current Racing GB finishes on 31st January

The VSTOL etc GB (in all honesty I have absolutely no idea what to call this GB ?) will run from 1/3/19 until 31/5/19 and currently I have no moderators lined up for this. Therefore the current plan is that I will moderate it.

The next GB Poll will be held in May. I will open up a thread to run for 10/14 days for suggestions and then run the actual Poll over the next 10/14 days. This will be the first Poll that will exclude any subject that has been "GB'd" over the previous two seasons.

The 2019/2020 season will kick off in the traditional manner with the One Week GB and this will held in either the 2nd or 3rd week of June.

Following that the three GB's of the season will be run :-

GB 1 - 1/7 to 30/9
GB 2 - 1/11 to 31/1/20
GB 3 - 1/3/20 to 31/5/20

[PR19_Kit]

The VSTOL etc GB (in all honesty I have absolutely no idea what to call this GB ?) will run from 1/3/19 until 31/5/19 and currently I have no moderators lined up for this. Therefore the current plan is that I will moderate it.

I'll give you a hand on that if you like Chris?

[Gondor]

I will tentatively offer to help moderate a GB Chris

Gondor

[rickshaw]

I will tentatively offer to help moderate a GB Chris

Gondor

Ditto, Chris.   

[zenrat]

...The VSTOL etc GB (in all honesty I have absolutely no idea what to call this GB ?)...

Given it will encompass everything but conventional wings then surely in the current idiom it must be the Alt. Flight GB.

I would offer to Mod but I am taking two weeks off after Easter and so will be absent at the crucial "negotiating kickbacks for an extension" period.

[NARSES2]

Cheers gentlemen 

I will be in touch nearer the time.

Chris

[strobez]

In the spirit of volunteering for something when you have no idea what you're getting into, I will also put up my hand to moderate a GB.

[NARSES2]

Thank you, duly noted 

It honestly doesn't involve much work at all once the ground rules are established. Then once it ends there is a little bit to do, but not much.

I also do not think it's a conflict of interest for moderators to participate in GB's they are moderating, but am happy to leave that up to the moderator's themselves.

[Nick]

The VSTOL etc GB (in all honesty I have absolutely no idea what to call this GB ?)

Vertical Flight
Up, up and away!
The only way is up!

[AeroplaneDriver]

The VSTOL etc GB (in all honesty I have absolutely no idea what to call this GB ?)

The Straight Up GB?

[zenrat]

IIRC other forms of unconventional flight were to be included such as Autgyros and Wing in Ground Effect (Ekranoplans).  Neither of which go straight up or travel vertically.

[NARSES2]

IIRC other forms of unconventional flight were to be included such as Autgyros and Wing in Ground Effect (Ekranoplans).  Neither of which go straight up or travel vertically.

Absolutely, which is why I can't get my brain around a name for it 

Maybe I'll just call it the "Unconventional Flight GB", but even that is going to need a long list of what that means and what is included ? It's going to be fun sorting the rules out for this one that's for sure 

[loupgarou]

A.B.Normal flight ?  Like in Young Frankenstein? 

[NARSES2]

 

[Rheged]

In education in UK, anything other than normal school attendance is referred to as "Education Otherwise (than standard)".  Similarly, might we refer to this build as AVIATION OTHERWISE?    It would mean that the moderators would have a major part to play in assessing the appropriateness of proposed builds, but I think everyone here can cope with rules that begin, like those of cricket, "If, in the opinion of the umpire......."

Should this not be acceptable to the community, I offer ALT. UPWARDS