Nats Reflections..............

[Grow Pattern]

Georgie,
               Dave was looking for volunteer workers all week. Maybe next 
year you can join the guys.

Eric.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Kennie" <geobet at gis.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 4:29 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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