Snap or not K Factor

[John Pavlick]

Guys,
 Think about what Ron said. I know, traditionally we assign K factors based
on a maneuver's difficulty. This appears to be sound logic and it is most of
the time. The effect of this is that a well executed, difficult maneuver
(high K-factor) contributes favorably to your score. And rightfully so.
Conversely, a poorly executed, difficult maneuver really hurts your final
score. Now all things considered, if everyone in your class flies the
maneuver in question with the same level of competency, and it's fairly easy
to judge, it all works out. The problem occurs when the high K-factor
maneuver is judged differently based on the way it is flown, for whatever
reason. Ron's idea is good, because even though the snaps are difficult
maneuvers, having a low K-factor would lessen the impact of a mis-judged
snap roll on your score. Right now it counts high enough to make a big
difference even if one guy gets an 8 and another guy gets a 9. Until we can
all agree on how to judge them so everyone has a fair shot, maybe it's a
good solution. Maybe we're just taking this all too seriously? Look at
Eric's comments. I'd like to know what you guys think.

John Pavlick
http://www.idseng.com

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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:42 PM
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Cc: Ron Van Putte
Subject: Re: Snap or not K Factor



  Here we are in yet another of the long strings about
  observing and judging snaps.  They come around about
  as often as seasons.

  It's pretty clear that as a community we don't yet agree on the
  exact criteria for snaps;  or have the observation skills to
  interpret the airplane behaviour; (which is extremely difficult to
  do in the fractional second the maneuver takes) or the proficiency
  to match the observed behaviour to the correct downgrades.
  Most of us can add to this list of issues.

  Yet, those imperfect judgments for high K-Factor snaps
  continue to have a high impact on round scores.

  How about reducing the K-Factor for snap maneuvers in
  AMA schedules?   We still fly them, we still judge them,
  we still invest as much of our resources as we want
  into improving flying and judging snaps.

  And.....when we get it right, <VBG> we can put the
  high K-Factors back in place.

  Ron Lockhart



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