Pattern Fun / scribe / Judging

[Bob Kane]

This is a tough one. Fill the judges chairs with enough qualified judges who know both the judging criteria AND the sequence they are judging. NSRCA certification aside, this is the first year I personally felt qualified to judge any class. Not because I know the judging criteria, but by NATS time I had either flown or repeatedly called all sequences, and knew every roll, push-pull, snap, spin combination. I did not need a scribe or caller to recite every element of a maneuver, just the name of the maneuver was sufficient (stall turn, 1/2 cuban, triangle, etc.). I knew if a maneuver should be severely downgraded or zeroed because it was performed incorrectly, but would score high otherwise per the judging criteria. By the time the caller or scribe recites something like "Top Hat, 3 of 4 Point Roll Up, 1/4 Roll Down, Enter Upright, Exit Inverted", the maneuver is over.

The dark-side of changing the schedules periodically will be finding qualified judges apart from the pilots/helpers who fly them. Don't get me wrong, I am all for changing the sequences periodically, but those who judge and don't actively fly will have to spend some time with the sequences and a stick plane or something to really know the schedules.


Bob Kane
getterflash at yahoo.com


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