Landing Direction; Spins, and Snaps. . .

[Jerry Budd]

Uhmm, Jerry -

What are using for your reference point in saying that you "never saw 
a 15 sec. difference that could have been saved"?  Stated another 
way, a difference of 15 sec. from what?  If at least one of the 
contest(s) you've observed didn't score TO&L's (meaning other than 0 
or 10) then what are you comparing the measured times too?  Did you 
have timed data from before when TO&L's were scored from 0 to 10 to 
difference your measurements from?  Without that data to establish a 
baseline you can't make a quantitative comparison, only a qualitative 
assessment (which is a fancy way of saying "a person's opinion").

Please don't take my questions as an attack, they're NOT meant that 
way.  But collecting invalid data can be as bad, if not worse, than 
having no data at all.  And I'm not saying that the data you've 
collected is invalid, just that one can't tell from what you wrote 
below.  Since your stated objective is to use the data to show the 
"rationale used to support the current proposal was false and it 
never was backed up by real data", then the legitimacy of your data 
becomes relevant.

Maybe I'm missing something here, can you help me understand how you 
were collecting your data?

Jerry (the other one, out on the left coast)


>Terry, you are being generous. I actually timed and recorded a bunch 
>of them at the last contest and never saw a 15 sec. difference that 
>could have been saved. I intend to do this at every contest this 
>year, and send a data file to all the Contest Board members during 
>the next rules cycle. I think the rationale used to support the 
>current proposal was false and it never was backed up by real data. 
> Actually when you factored in the currently required maneuvers at 
>TO, and at Landing, the overall total has to be longer. I guess 
>they were allocating a large amount of time saved by the Gun and Go 
>approach now being advocated/accepted.
>Jerry

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