Snap or not (since we have nothing better to do)

[Dean Pappas]

Hold on Ron!
Never say never ... or I mean ... well you get the idea.
Have you read the maneuver description for a torque roll in the proposed indoor event?
This thing is a precision maneuver: let me paraphrase.
The maneuver begins in straight level flight, the airplanes decellerates, raising its nose and maintains altitude until the plane is stopped. The plane rotates one turn, stops rotating, then returns to level flight on the same line, lowering the nose gradually and accellerating while maintaining altitude.
Now that's a maneuver! None of this flailing and barely missing the floor until you fly into the garbage can crap. That's the dumbing down of aerobatics.

Seriously, I'm with Nat: it is actually getting better. Back at the start of snaps in the schedule, we used to not even have this discussion. Remember when we selected our own maneuvers in FAI (then Masters). Those of us with EU1-As flew the 4K Reverse Snap. It would have been stupid not to. There is no question in my mind that we (I) was doing an ultra-tight barrel roll. It looked good, and back then we didn't even know there was a debate, let alone take sides.

The "seeing fast" problem, that my ol' buddy Ed Miller pointed out, is a serious training problem. It's the necessary point of attack. The question is ... if there is doubt in the mind of a conscientious and trained judge, did the pilot put it there, or is it the judge's fault? 

Later,
	Dean 

Dean Pappas
Sr. Design Engineer
Kodeos Communications
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When a torque roll becomes part of the Master class maneuver schedule, 
I will retire from R/C aerobatic competition and dream wistfully about 
'the good old days'.

Ron Van Putte

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