CD's

[Bill Glaze]

As I see it, we're opening up a whole new area for competition here.  If 
judges are ranked, and scored, according to their ability, then it 
follows that judges whould like to move up in ranking.  This would show 
their advancing capability.  We may be on to something here.  Perhaps a 
meet with trophies for the judges only?
Bill Glaze

Rcmaster199 at aol.com wrote:

> Indeed it would!!! After the initial shock of the perfect score wear 
> off. Perfect score is ZERO of course.
>  
> MattK
>  
> In a message dated 10/29/2004 2:48:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> ehaury at houston.rr.com writes:
>
>     John covers most of the points. It's important to recognize that
>     the class
>     that someone competes in only addresses his / her flying skills,
>     not judging
>     skills. Our certification process is the basis for ensuring that
>     everyone
>     has taken a look at the rules and been exposed to discussion of
>     the finer
>     points. Judging skills may advance much more quickly than flying
>     skills if a
>     little work is applied, so it's important for CD's to inquire as
>     to where
>     individuals fit in and use them in their judging matrix accordingly.
>
>     A ranking system incorporated into out cert process would
>     certainly be
>     useful, however the methodology for arriving at a proper ranking
>     is not
>     without difficulty. Maybe group (non competition) judging of
>     several flights
>     during the certification event, with scores compared to the
>     "experienced"
>     judges used for ranking (a real judging test)? Of course the
>     logistics of
>     this, considering many cert programs are conducted during the
>     offseason when
>     weather precludes much flying, are also difficult.
>
>     The best answer may be some sort of electronic flight scoring
>     system that
>     handles geometry, box limits, centering, and distance, leaving
>     only the
>     subjective smoothness / gracefulness to the judges. Just think -
>     all of the
>     objective elements, that we're all sure that we do correctly,
>     would be
>     accurately scored every time! Dean - you should be able to handle the
>     hardware, just make sure that it's simple to use, light, cheap, and
>     accurate. Would this ever make a great practice tool!
>
>     Earl
>
>  

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