Pattern Fun / scribe

[Woodward James R Civ 412 TW/DRP]

You may have your own opinion on scribes or no scribes.  BUT, do this at the
next contest.  Fly your round, then sit back and watch another flyer in YOUR
class.  Whatch his flight real close, and I'm sure you'll pick out some
errors, then, quickly look at the judges and notice which of the judges did
not see the error, because their head was obviously down, and looking at the
paper.  Then, realize that if you judge and look down to write scores, that
you probably miss something from that flight as well.  At the last contest,
I watched 1 judge who consistently missed the first two points of the
inverted 4-pt roll, because they were looking down at writing the score from
the full-roll 1/2 outside loop.  How the heck can you judge the 4-pt
accurately, if you miss the entry (wings level?  heading?
decending/climbing?), first roll rate, etc? Not to mention all other
manuevers.  No judge should be looking down during any flight, from
sportsman to FAI.  Tough issue....

Jim W.




-----Original Message-----
From: John Ferrell [mailto:johnferrell at earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:52 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Pattern Fun


 (Can't see how you can judge FAI or Masters without a scribe.)
You don't have to keep the clipboard in your lap!

John Ferrell 
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