avoidance-er uh 45 down snappin'

[wgalligan]

I guess if I like doing the snap so much it must be time to move up a class.  heh! heh!
maybe later this season...
Wayne

> If I remember rightly the concern was that
> Intermediate pilots might have problems with the 45
> down not leaving enough safety margin. Valid point,
> but just leaving the Immelmann followed by a level
> positive snap would have been just fine. Now the
> Intermediate schedule is left with no snap at all.
> This leaves a gap in transition to the Advanced
> schedule. Intermediate is still a good schedule in
> spite of the omission.
> Rodney 
> NSRCA 2906 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Ron Van Putte <vanputte at nuc.net> wrote:
> > wgalligan wrote:
> > 
> > > Just out of curiousity...  why was the Imm/45 down
> > snap removed from 
> > > the schedule at the last minute?
> > 
> > At the time of the contest board vote, there was
> > considerable concern 
> > about the safety of the 45 degree down snap roll
> > maneuver by many of the 
> > contest board members.  All the maneuver schedule
> > changes were packaged 
> > as a single vote and affirmative votes of the eleven
> > board members is 
> > required for passage of a rule change.  It was felt
> > that the votes were 
> > not there for passage.  Since a negative result of
> > the voting would have 
> > caused all of the proposed maneuver schedule changes
> > to be thrown out, a 
> > compromise was reached by removing the 45 degree
> > down snap roll.  Just 
> > why the Immelmann Turn was removed, I can't say. 
> > Why an alternative 
> > maneuver to the 45 down snap wasn't added, I also
> > can't say.
> > 
> > Ron Van Putte 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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