Earl's excellent observations

[John Ferrell]

I can post your drawings in my personal web space, just send me a copy.

Bill Glaze pointed out to me that the FAI landing sequence requires that
once you begin your descent to landing, you can never gain any altitude
according to the book. There would have been a lot of unhappy finalists if
this was enforced at Muncie. The only available penalty is a zero...

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Pappas" <d.pappas at kodeos.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Earl's excellent observations


Hello All,
wifferdil ... I just call 'em twinkle-rolls!
What I would like to see is for our team members to have two new arrows in
their quiver at the next Worlds.
One is a real snap that comes out on heading or is quickly corrected. (hint:
the more deeply the airplane is stalled in the initial break, the less lift
is available for heading loss.) That's right, a half loaf is worse than none
at all.
The other is a rolling circle that will not violate either the judges'
eyesight or a reasonable interpretation of the rule book as to distance. The
book does not specifically treat this maneuver class differently, so the 150
good/175 downgrade/200 severe downgrade rule obviously still applies. At
least it will when the Worlds' judges arbitrarily decide to start enforcing
it! Meanwhile, it's still in the book.
My concern is that without at least these two weapons in their arsenal, the
team will be set up to be "caught-out" as in '87. What do I mean? In '85
everyone at the Worlds flew at 200 ~250m. At the European Championship in
'86 the same was true, and Frack, Koger and I think Ivan were there as guest
participants. Sometime between then and Avignon in '87, a group of judges
agreed that the book was not being upheld, and started doing so. As a
result, we were caught-out, without even the right prop in the flight-box to
fly at the necessary speeds. Unfair? No! It was finally done by the book.
We risk the same issue with snaps and rolling circles. Everyone has been
getting away with murder on the snaps, at recent Worlds, and one day the
hammer is bound to drop. Besides, common sense says that the rollers are too
stinkin' big.
Other observations: I saw one square that was square in 4 rounds of the best
8 fliers in the land. Most ranged from 20% to 50% wide, especially in the
vertical 8s. Oh yes the square square belonged to Quique's 1st known
compulsory.
Everybody (and I mean everybody) overlapped the entry and exit lines to the
hourglass with 2 of 4 in F05. It's a shame this list doesn't accept
attachments, as I'd draw up a PDF showing the wrong shape that all the
finalists "perfected". I'm curious as to what happened here. I don't think
that it's an issue of education ... Has everyone migrated to a wrong shape
that the judges (both local and National) are accepting?
Ducking for cover,
Dean Pappas


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