similar design

[gene.maurice at attbi.com]

The CD should have been informed of this judges bias. Number 5 in the "Judges 
Code of Ethics" is: "Do not preconceive the performance of anyone." It sounds 
to me as if this person had preconceived that European designs should be scored 
higher. SHAME on him!!!!!    

--
Gene Maurice
gene.maurice at attbi.com
NSRCA 877
AMA 3408
> I was told by an FAI pilot that after a NATS, he was told, by a JUDGE, the
> he might have done better if he were flying an "European Design". So what's
> the motivation to fly American designs if the judges are gonna start judging
> design instead of the pattern at hand?
> 
> Jason
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nik Middleton <middletn at spinmail.com>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:30 AM
> Subject: RE: similar design
> 
> 
> > Interesting list,  one thing stands out though,  there don't seem to be
> that
> > many new US designs these days.  Not trying to be contentious here, merely
> > making an observation.  At this year's Euro champs, I didn't see one US
> > designed plane out of 150 aircraft,  yes I know it's Europe, but you would
> > have thought there'd be one or two.
> >
> > I'm aware that the Focus is a great flying plane, functional etc, but no
> one
> > could say it was stylish.  Where have all the good looking US designs
> gone?
> > I'm not saying there aren't any out there, but how many new for this year?
> > There seems to be a tremendous growth in the manufacture and design in
> > Europe, PL and ZN seem to be releasing at least two new designs every
> year,
> > and they're been sold as quickly as they're been made.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> 
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