New Sequences

[Verne Koester]

Mike,
Your team made the right choice. Intermediate to Advanced was huge. Your 
proposals fix that.

Verne


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hester" <kerlock at comcast.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: New Sequences


> What Bill said.
>
> We had 2 choices to smooth out that huge leap between 402 and 403: make 
> 402 tougher or make 403 slightly easier. The overwhelming majority was 
> against making 402 any tougher, so we went this way. Like Bill said, look 
> at the schedules in relation to each other and consider that carefully 
> before anyone votes on them. There are a couple of ways we could end up 
> with a worse problem than we currently have. My hope is everyone will put 
> a lot of thought into thier choices. I'm reminded of teh old knight at the 
> end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade....."choose wisely". Look what 
> happened to the guy that picked the wrong one. Eek.
>
> -Mike
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Pritchett" <phelps15 at comcast.net>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:03 PM
> Subject: New Sequences
>
>
>> Rodney:
>> Both proposed Advanced schedules are "easier" than the current Advanced 
>> schedule.  This was one of the criteria that we worked with, based upon 
>> overwhelming opinion that the jump to Advanced is currently too much.  I 
>> like both schedules (not because I'm on the committee...hehe), but what 
>> this WILL do is make the jump to Masters much bigger for the guys that 
>> will come through these schedules.  I am sort of a victim of having made 
>> the current jump, and now that I've made it, felt that I could 
>> objectively help others coming up in seasons to come not deal with some 
>> of the issues current Advanced flyers have had to handle.  Our current 
>> schedule calls for 10 maneuvers prior to a cross box turnaround. 
>> Although there is discussion on the list right now about being on that 
>> "line", and a cross box being a bother, let's face it, most Advanced 
>> flyers need to adjust in/out earlier than 10 maneuvers in.  Lots of 
>> thought and discussion went into these, and I'm sure that everyone on the 
>> committee hopes that the NSRCA membership takes a deep collective breath 
>> before making any judgments.  One thing we all tried to do is make it 
>> more even in jumps between classes, up to Masters.  We all seemed to 
>> agree that Masters should be the "big" jump, and a jump that provides a 
>> class of "Destination" for some, and FAI prep for others.  I hope that 
>> you, and others, will look at the proposed Advanced schedule as a part of 
>> the whole, and not a direct comparison to the present.
>> Thanks
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> Bill Pritchett
>> 765-744-9322
>>
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