Sequence Poll Results - clipped

[Randy]

Would Master's look any different if being a 'Stepping Stone' to FAI was just one of several goals instead a driving force?  

I do not fly Masters, but judge it at most of the local contests I go to.  It seems a big enough jump from advanced, so I not sure your would want to have the total K-Factor any higher than it is.  I saw some advance pilots move up to Master at the last contest of last year, and they sure did not need an even harder sequence.  Sure would not think of adding rolling circles, vertical knife-edge loops or etc. from the FAI world.  You would end up with just another FAI sequence; like USA-05 instead of P05 or F05.

Personnally I am not so sure the link between Master and FAI has been all that tight.  The update cycles are different enough to make it difficult to do it even if you were trying.  It seems to me that we have have already been succeeding at having Master be both a 'designation' class and a 'stepping-stone' to FAI.

Randy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Richards 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 1:43 PM
  Subject: Re: Sequence Poll Results


  Randy,

  I agree 100% that the Masters class CAN be several things at the same time. I believe the Masters class will always be a stepping stone to the FAI class. I just don't think that the "stepping-stone" idea should be the main driving force for what we try to accomplish with the Masters class.
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