Snaps

[Bill Glaze]

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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