Performance Judging? Trial Balloon

[Atwood, Mark]

Hey Don,

 

I put up some pretty horrific FAI flights and got some equally horrific scores :-)  The only comment I would have would be the point variance on any ONE maneuver (and I'm not talking about snapping or spin maneuvers where you often see a big variance.)

 

In particular I had a 4/8 - slow roll opposite that received 9, 9, 5   from the three judges.  Now in my opinion...getting a 9 on something says "Hey...that was a REALLY nice maneuver"...whether is a hard core technical judge OR an impression judge...   A five is quite the opposite...   So getting two 9's and a 5 makes you want to ask "which one of you saw me crash??"      I still have my tear sheets...  so some other examples...

 

5,6,9  (Loop with ½ roll)

6, 10, 8 (reverse four point  -- Similar issue here...seeing a 10 and a 6??  I doubt I flew a 10...but hard to believe that one saw a perfect maneuver compared to a 6)

8,0,8 (Half reverse Cuban 8 with full roll....NO clue what would zero that...lol...my guess was I was partly out of the box)

 

I have a few other "wide" variances...but these were the ones that screamed somethings wrong.

 

All in all I felt I was judged very fairly compared to my "peers" though...I'm sure everyone had some similar bugaboos.  In fact, one judge made the effort to go to the field house to correct a zero on a landing after I landed dead stick AFTER completing the full sequence (I died in the spin) and completed the required landing sequence.

 

-Mark

 

 

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From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Don Ramsey
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:02 PM
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Subject: Re: Performance Judging? Trial Balloon

 

We have heard from a lot of Advanced pilots about the judging on that line.  I would like some feed back from Masters and FAI on the prelims judges.  My very limited survey seems to indicated that those lines had very good judging.  I had a lot of 5s & 6s and some good scores but overall my scores, in my opinion, were spot on.  I'm only asking about the prelims.

 

Don

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