Change and effect... and a cause!

[jim ivey]

Eric
It has not been long ago that the nats Intermediate was won by a Boxer and 
(I believe) a Rossi eng. I was one of the judges that year, 2002 I think.

Jim Ivey



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>From: "Henderson,Eric" <Eric.Henderson at gartner.com>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: RE: Change and effect... and a cause!
>Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 10:54:13 -0400
>
>Ah Ha! - The voice of CA.
>
>Which part the theory do you want to test??
>
>E of the east...
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On 
>Behalf Of WHIP23 at aol.com
>Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 10:22 AM
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: Change and effect... and a cause!
>
>
>Hi Eric
>
>I'm, currently, not sponsored and available to test this theory.  Contact 
>me off line with sponsorships.  Cash will also be accepted.  Sorry, but I 
>just couldn't resist.
>
>Bob
>
>n a message dated 8/9/03 9:13:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>Eric.Henderson at gartner.com writes:
>
>
>
>I think we accept statements like " There was a judging bias towards 4-c's 
>that made 2-c's redundant",  far too readily.
>
>I can recall giving a YS 1.20 pilot in D-1 a heck of a good run for his 
>money for a whole season with a Conquest and a Hanno. They guy flew better 
>than I did but I did not experience that his set up was any better. My 
>buddy Charlie Watt beat 24 pilots in Sportsman (402) with the same config. 
>the year before.
>
>What I think happened was that pilots who were good also tended to be 
>committed and naturally migrated their investments to the more current and 
>newly available equipment. The net result being that they were at the top 
>with the old and were again at the top with the "new". The rest of us 
>following in the "comet's' tail in the hope that we would also become 
>winners.
>
>I don't think my flying was ever improved by the latest overpowered brute 
>of a pattern plane.  It never got me in the winners circle without, a) 
>learning to be a judge first, b)slowly applying pieces of education over 
>gallons of burnt fuel. c) Moving up before it got stale.. I can't find a 
>correlation in results to powerplants. Better planes made a difference but 
>not without a ton of left-hand(Rudder) education and practice.
>
>I ran the OS1.40 RX for a season in 1997/1998. There was some prejudice 
>that you always get from folks with a lot of money invested in 4-c's but 
>cannot say that I saw prejudice in the scores I got. I flew very average 
>and very rudder clumsy and was scored accordingly. I believe that judges 
>find it hard to downgrade just because of a plane design or a motor. A 
>plane that can't do the maneuvers is much more likely to incur negativism.
>
>If  a pilot was winning with a .61 powered Jekyll and was left in the dust 
>by everyone moving to 1.20's. I could say that we hurt them.  If a not so 
>successful pilot was left behind and could not afford the new equipment we 
>will never know if the new equipment would have made them more competitive 
>or just left them with their prior status quo.
>
>The real "devil" is not equipment changes but open or background 
>sponsorship. Professional, or pseudo professional pilots, with heavy 
>financial support cause changes in our sport. We, the great unsponsored, 
>never seem to open our eyes and recognize that we really can't compete with 
>them!  Perhaps they should have their own class to fly in. In a way the TOC 
>fulfilled that roll for many years. (It deviated a bit when the planes 
>became large and very loud).
>
>Pro-Am - If the professionals were separated from the amateurs, even by as 
>little as a class within the class, then private-pilot-entries could have a 
>way to the top that was not blocked by the big bucks! This years FAI finals 
>were dominated by radio-team-pilots  It read JR - Futaba - JR - Futaba -J R 
>- Futaba - JR - Futaba (I'm not picking on the radio suppliers. It could 
>just as easily be fuel or engines or planes or whatever).
>
>The point is that the amateur is completely emasculated in our sport and 
>you are sentenced to follow or fade irregardless of how good a pilot you 
>may be!.  Nite all...
>
>Eric.
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