Judging Landing & take-offs. (was Re: Spoilers for Pattern Planes?????)

[Patternrules at aol.com]

 Judging has and will always will be a problem, I was at a contest this year 
and had to fly the last flight while most was packing up so no caller but one 
of the judges had somebody call for me that I didn't know, after my flight he 
ask if I would like some pointers, of course I said sure, he said "your 
loosing a lot of points because you pitch before you snap" of course anything he 
said after that I just let go in one ear and out the other.
 Until we reach a point where technology does the judging, with say flight 
data recorder's or what ever, we will have to live with it, we have come a long 
way in the judging area, when I flew in the 80's and all judges was club 
judges we still had problems, maybe we are being to critical, of course it would be 
good to have everyone on the same page, probably MOST of the time the best 
flyer wins. I was told at a contest that no matter what, I fly the way I read 
the rules, and he was right, as I have said before contest are more than 
winning, it is getting together with friends you only see every few weeks during the 
summer, and self improvement, as the records show I'm mostly at the bottom of 
the pole as far as winning goes but the guys at my field think I'm a great 
flyer and that is what pattern does for you, it makes you work at being better. 


Steve Maxwell
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