Wrong Maneuver issues

[Atwood, Mark]

I know we joke about it a lot, but it's a difficult issue.  It's hard to memorize 5 sets of schedules...especially the more complicated ones.  Until recently, most of the more advanced pilots had been through the lower ranks with the same schedules...they hadn't changed in many years.  After having flown the sportsman, advanced, and masters sequences literally a thousand times, it was unlikely that I would forget the sequence. Made them easy to judge without effort. 

But now, the sequences are all new to all of us.  Unless you're very diligent, which is often NOT the case at a local spring contest, it's easy for the judges to judge the maneuver flown, rather then the one required.  This is especially true of similar manuevers...1/2 square with 1/2 roll rather than 1/2 square with 2/4...or your 1/2 cuban rather than 1/2 reverse cuban etc.

You'll find fewer and fewer errors as the summer progresses and as the manuevers become more familiar to everyone. 

Still...best to be quiet.  Bob P. managed to fly an inside-inside cuban eight with 1 1/2 rolls rather than an inside-outside cuban with full rolls in masters at the '99 nats and got 8's from all 4 judges...not the best endorsement.

-M


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Mark,

Do you think if I did a 1/2 Reverse Cuban 8 after the straight flight back instead of the correct 1/2 Cuban 8 again, the judges might have missed it...Oh, I remember...They marked it zero when I said "oh shoot"...<VBG> I was pretty proud of that scribbled out 8 though...ha...

Larry
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  From: Atwood, Mark 
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  Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:01 PM
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  I'll go back to my previous statement...I'm a huge advocate of "benefit of the doubt"...which means if I know the manuever they're trying to fly, then it's "recognized" and I would award the downgrade, not a zero.  Lord knows we'd be handing out zeros continuously in sportsman otherwise.  

  I only use the "unrecognizable manuever" zero when it's so bad that the manuever would be a zero if I did recognize it....


  Take the double Weedon for example :) VBG...sorry Tom...couldn't help myself.
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    From: Henderson,Eric [mailto:Eric.Henderson at gartner.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:51 AM
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    The example below is clearly the wrong maneuver, but what about a top-hat where the pilot does not draw a straight line on the top. It looks just like a Humpty so do you zero for unrecognizable maneuver, or down-grade 2-4 points???

    E.


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    In a message dated 6/10/03 8:20:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, gfowler at raytheon.com writes:



      Yeah but if you 1/2 rolled on the way up, pushed over the top, then no roll would be required on the down leg....




    I agree the issue is that the 1/2 roll must be on the up line, the zero was for a 1/2 roll on the way down, not a legal variation per the rule book.

    Bob 



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