Landing Direction; Spins, and Snaps. . .

[John Ferrell]

I have been involved with running the line at several Nats and at the 
World's in Pensacola.
Generally speaking, making the decision to terminate a flight early should 
not be taken lightly. If your decision is overturned, the only remedy is to 
throw out the whole round for every one. Better to spend the time, do the 
flight and let the pattern lawyers do their thing!

The pilot paid his money for his time at bat, let him do his thing.

People running around in a panic on the line is a very bad thing safetywise.

I like the way FAI does it best: You get 10 minutes for your flight, spend 
it your way!

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Richards" <bob at toprudder.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: Landing Direction; Spins, and Snaps. . .


>I have really been trying to stay out of the "scoring
> TO and Landings" discussion since I voiced my opinion
> way back when. However, I will add some real-world
> data regarding time savings.
>
> During one round at the '93 Nats, I had an engine that
> would not idle down without cutting off. I did
> eventually get airborne, but ended up zeroing the
> flight since I took 10 seconds over the required time
> to get airborne. I understand the time limit is to
> keep things moving, but in this case it did anything
> but. I flew the whole flight, and the judges judged
> the whole flight, the scribes wrote down every score.
> It was not until I landed that I found out the round
> was zeroed, and only because I saw the scribes erasing
> the scores. It wasted a lot of people's time.
>
> The line judge should have immediately told me to stop
> and let the next contestant fly, but I think he was
> doing everything he could to be fair and wanted to
> double check the rules. In fact, since I did get
> airborne and was only 10 seconds over, he was going to
> let it go until someone else not even flying in my
> class complained.
>
> This whole episode was a bad experience for several
> people, and would have been avoided entirely and saved
> a LOT of time if the takeoff had not been scored.
>
> I learned to land/takeoff very well LONG before I
> started flying pattern. However, I understand the
> viewpoint of others, and I can see the point of
> requiring scored takeoffs/landings in Sportsman and
> Intermediate, much the way Novice used to have
> straight flight out/back scored. It is an element that
> is important and should be learned early.
>
> FWIW.
>
> Bob R.
>
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