AMA MASTER'S unknown?

[Bob Pastorello]

Well spoken, Verne.  Particularly this paragraph 
"Leave the unknowns and/or finals schedules for those pilots that choose to fly in that environment and that environment is FAI. I don't see any benefit in tinkering with something that's not broken. If anything, it'll prevent those that don't have the preparation time from showing up in the first place."

  There just is NOT a good reason to escalate Masters any further than it already is!!!  How many guys have to quit, walk away, and take the immense amount of knowledge and experience they have with them BEFORE we're gonna figure out 
            THAT WE MUST STOP *TINKERING* WITH THE GAME.... 

Bob Pastorello
NSRCA 199  AMA 46373
rcaerobob at cox.net
www.rcaerobats.net


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Verne Koester 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:27 PM
  Subject: Re: AMA MASTER'S unknown?


  Eric,
  Well, okay, you pulled me out of the shadows. I'm dead set against an unknown in the finals for a variety of reason. Bob Pastorello just rattled off a bunch of them in another post so I'll try not to repeat those. Most Masters pilots could do a credible job in FAI with practice. This is not to say that a Masters finalist would likely be an FAI finalist because I don't think they would. By the same token, I don't think we'd be at the bottom of the heap, either. However, the one common thread I hear again and again among Masters pilots is a lack of the time required to become competitive with two separate schedules. In addition, there's a couple of big differences between flying the finals and flying the prelims. In no particular order, the judging is more consistent, there's no distraction from midair close calls, there's more pressure and so on. Combined, these things can both help and hurt the contestant with the main effect being that flying in the finals is very different than flying in the prelims. Leave the unknowns and/or finals schedules for those pilots that choose to fly in that environment and that environment is FAI. I don't see any benefit in tinkering with something that's not broken. If anything, it'll prevent those that don't have the preparation time from showing up in the first place.

  Verne Koester


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Grow Pattern 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:00 PM
    Subject: Re: AMA MASTER'S unknown?


    Archie,
                 I am particularly interested in what you say because as a person who actually attends the Nat's, you are therefore well positioned  to have and entertain new ideas. As a person who makes it to the finals you are both experiential and a potential who would fly this stuff. You are more than just a theorist. How do other ex-finalist think?

    The subject heading says unknowns not impossibles....The maneuvers would not (be intended to) be more difficult. Just stringing them together would be difficult to sort the finalists out...

    Regards,

    Eric.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Archie Stafford 
      To: discussion at nsrca.org 
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