Displacement during snaps - judging

[Randy]

Being the schmoe because you actually noticed an error in flight or of 
informing other pilots that they are responsible for clearly demonstrating 
the maneuver; seems to be the hardest part of judging to me.  I see a fair 
amount of "defensive flying" at regional level contests.  By that I mean 
flying in a way to make it hard to judge the manuevers instead of clearly 
demonstating the manuever.  Sometimes it's flying too far out, sometimes it 
pauses in point rolls that are so short you cannot tell where the pause 
really was just that it happened (quick enough to hide a .5 or 1 pt error). 
At least you can downgrade for flying to far out, if you can stand the 
pressure for doing it.  And giving zeros for non-snap snap rolls is 
included.

Randy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Pappas" <d.pappas at kodeos.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: RE: Displacement during snaps ** del klipped for reposting **


What scares me is that the lone zero has often been right.
Then we comparatively evaluate the judges, and the guy who was awake looks 
like a schmoe.

Dean Pappas
Sr. Design Engineer
Kodeos Communications
111 Corporate Blvd.
South Plainfield, N.J. 07080
(908) 222-7817 phone
(908) 222-2392 fax
d.pappas at kodeos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
[mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Archie Stafford
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:09 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: Displacement during snaps ** del klipped for reposting **


It is the pilots responsibility to demonstrate the maneuver, but it is also
the judges responsibility to know what to look for.  When several pilots are
scored the same way 9, 9, and 0, then obviously, either 2 of the judges or
the one judge are looking for different things.  If it is a rarity and
happens to one pilot then I will agree it is on the pilots shoulders, but if
repeatedly "qualified" judges are scoring this way, then there is obviously
a discrepancy in what the judges are looking for.

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