Nats Reflections..............
Jim Ivey
jivey61 at bellsouth.net
Sun Jul 24 16:07:20 AKDT 2005
Scott
They didn't come to the nats.
Jim Ivey
>
> From: "Sarah Dunphy" <ssdunphy at mindspring.com>
> Date: 2005/07/24 Sun PM 07:56:46 EDT
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Subject: Re: Nats Reflections..............
>
> Where was Jason and Sean this year ?
>
> Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Kennie" <geobet at gis.net>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:29 PM
> Subject: Nats Reflections..............
>
>
> > Nats Reflections?????????? How much time do you have?
> > What a week!!!!!
> > Saw some wonderful flying! Garnered tons of knowledge, especially in the
> > areas
> > of electric equipment. Jerry Budd was a gold mine of info regarding all
> > aspects
> > of everything he was asked about and came across as holding nothing back.
> > Richard Landis gave me a seminar on all the stuff he's picked up
> > technically
> > regarding his set-up ( and let me tell you his stuff worked well) which
> > was
> > significantly less costly than all the other rigs( thank you Richard and
> > Jerry).
> > I spent part of the mornings calling for Bill Pascucci over on
> > Intermediate and
> > met lotsa great new people as well as fellowshipping with many old friends
> > from
> > previous years.
> > Got to do some of my usual "coaching whether they want it or not" with
> > some of
> > the top dawgs as the wind was playing havoc on some maneuvers (like the
> > 1/2
> > Clover).Some of these guys didn't know that there was a specific length to
> > the
> > inverted portion of this maneuver and others felt that the vertical up and
> > down
> > lines didn't need to be superimposed on each other.In an unofficial
> > capacity
> > I'm allowed to assist in execution and presentation coaching and I see my
> > function as helping in these areas. I'm aware that some guys don't
> > appreciate
> > me sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong, but thankfully there are
> > some
> > whose egos allow acceptance and they're grateful for the feedback.
> > This was my first exposure to Tony Frakowiak who, I have to tell you, is
> > one
> > awesome executioner. Especially in the known stuff, he was as good as any
> > of
> > the others, however, there were some areas in the unknowns where he was
> > off
> > just a smidgeon.
> > You know who really impressed me? Todd Blose! Boy, does that guy have
> > potential! When he would hit a maneuver that he would do well, it would be
> > TEXTBOOK!!!
> > In one round, he did the loop with one roll flawlessly. In another round
> > it was
> > the 1/2 Clover. If he can get to the point where he can put a whole
> > sequence
> > together he's going to be unstoppable.
> > Oh yeah, I also got to help Terry Hemmis in Intermediate with inverted
> > rudder
> > application for which she seemed grateful and when I saw her the next day
> > she
> > said that she was using it and it was working for her (how great is that,
> > wow!).
> > Met Vicente Bortone and his buds from the K.C. area and enjoyed their
> > company
> > immensely.
> > Impressive new models were Jerry's Abbra and Quique's Brio. There were a
> > couple
> > of Abbras ($1300 and 4 evenings and you're in the air), and quite a few
> > Brios(Piedmont Models).
> > As to the flying skills displayed,..........there was Quique, and then
> > there
> > were the humans! As I sat out there, in my chair, many guys approached me
> > with
> > the "whose winning?" question, which was easily responded to with "Quique,
> > hands down". You know, last year I scored Quique lower than his final
> > standing,
> > but he didn't fly this year like he flew last year. He didn't just fly
> > better
> > than everybody else, there was a significant gap between he and the next
> > lower
> > competitor. On my score sheet he won all 4 rounds handily except for the
> > first
> > unknown where I had Don tying him.
> > Nobody was God in the rollers as everybody was losing centering on the
> > backside
> > due to the wind billowing out the final roll to the outside and everybody
> > was
> > also either completing early or late with many changes in roll rate in an
> > attempt to nurse the thing in one area or another.Some would reverse the
> > roll
> > direction before completion of the previous roll. It was obvious that it
> > was a
> > tough maneuver.
> > You know how I always say that you can't trust your impressions about how
> > you
> > THINK a guy is flying? Well, last year that happened to me with Sean. This
> > year
> > it was Don. Every time I scored him I got the feeling that he was a little
> > off,
> > but when my numbers were added up I found that he did extremely well.
> > Which brings me to another point of concern regarding the judges picked to
> > judge the finals. I confess that I don't know how they go about performing
> > that
> > task, but I think that the judges should be ONLY FAI pilots that didn't
> > make
> > the cut.The judges should be pilots who have been consistantly flying the
> > FAI
> > class IMHO as I feel that the underclassmen have not yet had enough
> > exposure to
> > the extreme discipline of the FAI regimen (nothing personal here guys).We
> > owe
> > the best the best!
> > How many of you guys knew that our friend Mr Hyde is flying
> > Airtronics???......Yep, I'm pretty sure it was a Stylus. Had more than one
> > airplane too! Had the Genesys and the Scandalous (bi-plane). Both
> > airframes are
> > products of C.A. Models. I couldn't help wonder if the Scandalous was a
> > second
> > generation Double Vision and if it was why he didn't call it something
> > like
> > "Forize", although they are quite dissimilar in appearance.The Scandalous
> > appears to have a smaller vertical profile with the wings closer together
> > with
> > high aspect ratios.I thought that the long skinny wings might be difficult
> > to
> > handle in high winds, but appeared to be of little concern to someone of
> > his
> > ability. The one flight that I saw him fly the Genesys was awesome and if
> > I had
> > been scoring it the result would have been very high (as good as any
> > flight I
> > observed in the contest).However, I found the bipe difficult to score, as
> > visually I had difficulty staying with it's tracking and orientation. I
> > think
> > one of the reasons for this phenomenon was that he was up 5th in round
> > one(finals) and he elected to fly downwind. After watching 4 guys fly the
> > sequence in the other direction, your eye became accustomed to what the
> > maneuvers should look like in that direction and the transposition duty
> > that it
> > placed on the judging effort, plus the fact that the sky, during that
> > flight,
> > was filled with 5 foot diameter clouds almost touching each other and that
> > particular background made clear recognition difficult.Interestingly, his
> > subsequent flights were performed in the established direction and I did
> > find
> > it easier to deal with the visual thing as time went on, but never felt
> > that he
> > was best served with that model.
> > Last nite I spent 4&1/2 hours crunching my numbers(unofficial) and
> > needless to
> > say, the results I arrived at were significantly different than the
> > official
> > tally.
> > Troy's situation is very interesting. As some of you know, Troy had a
> > flame-out
> > on the 3rd maneuver of the final round and lost that score, but at the end
> > of
> > the 3rd round I had him in 4th place aaaannd if I average his scores for
> > the
> > first 3 flights and add that averaged number to his other 3 scores it
> > moves him
> > into 3rd place according to my numbers, which would have changed things
> > tremendously.BTW,IMHO Troy was making the most power of any of the IC
> > engines
> > and that buggar ran flawlessly throughout the contest. There's no good
> > explanation for the flame-out except YS-Voodoo.
> > My prediction for the future is that the three IC guys in this years
> > finals
> > will be utilizing electron propulsion next year.
> > Georgie
> >
> > P.S. Anybody interested in my order of finish, just send me an e-mail.
> > You'll
> > be shocked!!!!!!!!!! Numbers don't lie!
> >
> > Jason wrote:
> >
> >> Here are the final placings for F3A:
> >>
> >> 1 Somenzini, Quique Brio/Hacker
> >> 2 Hyde, Chip Scandalous/Hacker
> >> 3 Szczur, Don Brio/YS
> >> 4 Lockhart, Dave Vivat/Webra
> >> 5 Blose, Todd Genesis/Hacker
> >> 6 Frackowiak, Tony Partner/Hacker?
> >> 7 Jesky, Andrew Brio/Hacker
> >> 8 Newman, Troy Pinnacale?/YS
> >>
> >> Jason
> >> www.jasonshulman.com
> >>
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