Snaps

[Bill Glaze]

Thanks, Tony, I had wondered about what had happened.  A video like this
could be very beneficial, but could also be hard to produce.  Another
organization of which I was a board member, had a commercial company
video a judges seminar, and a field session of flying.  The tape cost
the organization $500, and was nearly worthless.  Lesson learned.
I hope a tape of parallel quality to the existing NSRCA tape on judging,
can be produced.

Bill Glaze

Tony Stillman wrote:

>  Bill: Some funding had been approved and budgeted for, but the actual
> video turned out much harder to make than was originally expected.
> This issue will be discussed in the Annual NSRCA Board Meeting at the
> Nats next week. Tony Stillman
> Radio South
> 3702 N. Pace Blvd.
> Pensacola, FL 32505
> 1-800-962-7802
> www.radiosouthrc.com
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Bill Glaze
>      To: discussion at nsrca.org
>      Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 2:22 PM
>      Subject: Re: Snaps
>       It seems to me that the NSRCA was working on a
>      spin/snaproll video last year.  It mad a splash on this
>      group, and then faded into oblivion.  Anybody remember it?
>      Or know what happened to it?
>
>      Bill Glaze
>
>      Mike Turgeman wrote:
>
>     > I agree with you. That's why I think a video will help all
>     > of us to understand the discussed issues better. I hope
>     > that there will be more than one video clip.The main thing
>     > I would like to here comments about is the amount of
>     > attitude change needed during the snap. Obviously the
>     > airplane must be stalled but no one is flying with AOA
>     > sensor on board so the pilot and the judges have to
>     > estimate the stall visually. I am interested to see what
>     > they expect and how they estimate it.Mike
>     >
>     >      ----- Original Message -----
>     >      From: Del Rykert
>     >      To: discussion at nsrca.org
>     >      Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 4:13 AM
>     >      Subject: Re: Re:Snaps
>     >       Good idea Mike but I have found video can
>     >      sometimes be misleading as different aircraft
>     >      present so differently in some ways regarding
>     >      the snap. This thread has helped show just how
>     >      challenging it is to judge and fly
>     >      correctly.      Del K. Rykert
>     >           AMA - 8928
>     >           NSRCA - 473
>     >           Kb2joi - General
>     >
>     >           ----- Original Message -----
>     >           From: Mike Turgeman
>     >           To: discussion at nsrca.org
>     >           Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:33 AM
>     >           Subject: Re:Snaps
>     >            Hi all,Very interesting discussion on
>     >           a very important issue. As Earl
>     >           mentioned sometimes a good snap is
>     >           misjudged because we are used to see
>     >           the bad one. I think so too. Most of
>     >           the judges expect too much attitude
>     >           change and score zero for snaps with
>     >           small attitude change because they
>     >           consider it as an axial roll.Maybe
>     >           someone could post a short video that
>     >           demonstrate how a real 1 1/2 snap
>     >           should look like.Mike Turgeman
>     >
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