*SPAM* Re: Sequence comments

[Atwood, Mark]

Hey Terry,

 

Please don't take this the wrong way...not meant to be a comment on your
flying (never seen you fly) but I think you'd find that if you were
ACEING the advanced pattern...current OR proposed...you'd be more than
ready to handle masters.  Believe it or not...the same things that will
let you consistently get a 9 on the six sided outside loop...are the
same things that let you handle some of the more complex components in
Masters or FAI.

 

It's not the maneuvers in general that kill ya...it's the subtle rudder
correction you need to make through each push of those outside
corners...or in a heavy cross wind both rolling and ruddering in each
corner to keep the crab in...    Once you master those...and thus are
mastering the sequence...you'll be MORE than ready for masters.

 

I'm going back a bit, but I remember in Sportsman (what use to be
intermediate) never really scoring consistently high on the inverted
pass or the rolls.  I had tried to fly advanced...and all but crashed
trying to do Slow rolls and the four point.   I wasn't ready...and
didn't think Sportsman would ever get me ready.

 

But the reality was that I wasn't going to WIN sportsman consistently
until I WAS slow rolling into and out of inverted.  The sequence was set
up to teach me that roll 180 degrees at a time.    Demonstrating that I
had "control" of that roll...rather than briskly rolling to inverted and
hoping I'd catch the elevator correctly...allowed me to score consistent
9's on that maneuver...and suddenly it was time to move up...and
suddenly I was "ready" to move up.

 

I think the new advanced sequences offer the same.  

 

My .02

 

-Mark 

 

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From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
On Behalf Of Terry Terrenoire
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:53 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: *SPAM* Re: Sequence comments

 

I am having trouble finishing in the middle of the pack in Adv, certaily
not ready for Masters, and do not feel that the new schedule will help
that situation. I MAY be able to finish a little better, but it will not
give me confidence in moving to Masters!

 

Terry T.

 

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