new patterns

Mon Jun 6 21:30:57 AKDT 2005

List et al,

The reality of this is the work that was done was submitted to the President
of the NSRCA. Before I was ready to release documents to the general public,
I was waiting for an approval by the Board. Not that there is anything
hidden about it. Just that the Board commissioned the committee and it
reports back to the Board. I have not heard any comments from the Board.
Once the Board said OK it looks like you fulfilled the charter that you were
given.....then I was going to release the documents on the Internet. It is
my firm belief that the Board will be as pleased with the results as I. If
there were serious issues I would not have submitted the results regardless
of the Deadline. The old idea of the cook not showing the cake until he
verifies the kids name is spelled correctly applies here. The Cake is on its
way the work is complete. I don't want to post something and then have it
change in 2-3 days. This adds confusion to the situation. These are NSRCA
proposals and as such the NSRCA Board of Directors should know what is being
done before its released to the hungry crowd. This is a formality that was
agreed upon before work was begun. June 1st was the deadline So its been
just a few days since it was sent out to the VPs from Lamar. Lance I
appreciate your comments as a member of the Board.

For all of you that don't know. The new sequences will be presented in both
the traditional words as we have used in Pattern and also Aresti as a
graphical shorthand. IMAC uses this graphical shorthand exclusively. Our
section of the hobby is a little different, in the way things are done. The
words and the Aresti in FAI carry equal weight. A main reason for this is
language barriers. The Aresti is more difficult to read sometimes, but once
you send a little time with it begins to make a huge amount of sense. We in
the F3A class flying unknowns use the Aresti to tell us the general
shapes...what is this thing suppose to resemble? It works well. We as a
committee felt that Aresti was a good thing to introduce to AMA pattern. So
I have the program and am currently getting all the Aresti documents done.
This is in addition to the traditional descriptions that we have had
forever. So its like getting Peas and Carrots. Both serve a purpose and will
help define the figures they represent.

To quickly answer a couple questions. FAI current has the golf ball and the
reverse golf ball in its catalog. It is basically a vertical gold fish or
Half of a Cuban 8 that is vertical. The 45's cross with the roll elements
and the loop is 3/4 of a circle. A Golf Ball has the loop at the top. So the
model pulls or pushes to a 45 upline performs the required roll element on
center  if there is a roll. Then Loops 270degs to the downline 45 and
performs the required roll element on center.The rolls cross at center like
a Cuban 8.  So if you were to draw a Cuban 8 with only one of the loops but
both 45's...then turn it to the loop side up it looks like a golf ball
sitting on a  tee. A Reverse Golf ball as in the proposed Masters for the
Survey is this same figure but from the top and the loop portion is on the
bottom. IMAC and the current FAI patterns have a gold fish in them. The golf
ball is a vertical gold fish.

Spring Coil. Basically this a variation on a figure 9....models performs
1-1/2 loops at the top of a vertical upline. The figure in question has the
pilots option for inside or outside 1-1/2loop. Basically a figure 9 but
instead of 270degs of loop its 540degs. This is 540degs of a circle to come
back down on a vertical. So its a figure 9 style maneuver that starts and
ends at base altitude.

Descriptors for new things are following however there are not many new
figures.

I know these have been flown a bunch. Both the guys in the groups that
developed each set flew them and I as well as others flew them too.

There are no secrets and everything will be posted and available to all. I
have been fighting a computer that locks up everytime I open
word-excel-Explorer-visio. Luckily Email works. I hope Dell will have the
solution on Friday of this coming week when the new box arrives. Amazing how
Win98 is not really supported and you get told if your machine is 5yrs old
its a piece of crap and throw it away. When my new machine gets going I will
get a finished set of documents to answer your questions. Aresti and English
explanations will help clarify the problems.

Lastly I want to thank the guys on the Teams that created the sequences. You
will have all their names and credit will be handed out to the guys that did
the grunt work. I only gathered the info and combined it. A few changes were
made on individual figures to meet KF goals or improve the flow....but the
meat and potatoes work that has been done is the ideas and goals of about
15-20 people. I think you all will be as proud of the outcome as I am.

So thanks for the Hard Work from you guys on the Team!

Troy Newman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Smith" <dentdoc007 at adelphia.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:11 AM
Subject: RE: new patterns

> Lamar has them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
> On Behalf Of Jim Ivey
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 1:32 PM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: new patterns
>
>  Hey
> Where can I find the new proposed patterns?Guess I am overlooking them.
>
> Jim Ivey
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