Judges

[Grow Pattern]

Try looking at this from the view that Dave G. had at the Nat's. If a pilot 
shows up and is certified to judge AMA and/or FAI then Dave has to use that 
pilot in any class that the schedule allows.

There's no "scale" of experience or skill level that Dave can apply.

Regards,

Eric.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earl Haury" <ehaury at houston.rr.com>
To: "Discussion List, NSRCA" <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: Judges


> There are two overlapping issues being discussed. Judge competency and 
> score accounting at the Nats, this note is about judges and another will 
> address Nats scoring.
>
> I contend that judge competency is better than it's ever been. Primarily 
> two things account for that, the NSRCA certification program and 
> pilot-judges. Our cert program is designed to ensure that everyone is 
> exposed to the proper judging techniques and the current rules. Using 
> pilot-judges provides an indication that the judges are interested in the 
> details of the game. As with anything, there are some outliers and they 
> need to be addressed - especially at the Nats.
>
> Could the system be better? You bet! Unfortunately, the cert program 
> doesn't require (it's suggested) actual flight scoring and review. Nor is 
> there any ranking of ability. Nor can we simply base a person's judging 
> talent on the class they're flying (that works both ways in that a FAI 
> pilot may not be a competent judge while an Intermediate flier may be). We 
> really need some sort of ranking process.
>
> We've migrated from one end of the judge spectrum to the other in that the 
> old USPJA ranked judges by experience, but didn't quantify skills nor have 
> a good training program / requirement. (Then there was the overlap into 
> Scale, with associated judges - but that's another story.) If our cert 
> program would have been integrated into the USPJA we might actually still 
> have been able to go to a Nats to compete only. This group had many fine 
> non-pilot judges, and just as now, some who had difficulty. Most of us 
> believed that things would improve with certified pilot-judges, and it 
> has. But at a the price of doing it ourselves while still being subject to 
> errant scores, probably OK to good at local meets - but really poor at a 
> Nats. Hmmm - "be careful what you wish for" seems to apply here.
>
> Given our current system doesn't have the resources to "calibrate" or 
> "rate" everyone with actual flight judging, things aren't going to change 
> dramatically any time soon. We'll keep plugging away to try and educate as 
> best we can and hope that information can be applied during judging 
> activity.
>
> Earl
>
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