[NSRCA-discussion] rookie judge

[Ron Van Putte]

On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Pat Hewitt wrote:

> This will be my first time at the Nats so please advise. I  
> understand that I
> am to help judge but my issue with it is I don't think I would be a  
> good
> judge. I can do sportsman but it just would not be fair to the  
> advanced guys
> please advise ( i will if its a must but i would be a much better  
> scribe)

I wrote the following to John Pavlik, but my response to John fits here:

Dave Guerin is the Nats event director, but, as the event director,  
he WILL have a shortage of judges.  The Nats event director doesn't  
like to use 'unknown' judges.  Intermediate pilots are 'unknowns',  
unless the Intermediate pilots who feel they are qualified, make  
their qualifications known to the event director.  That is done on  
the Nats entry form.  Event Directors LOVE Intermediate class pilots  
who are qualified to judge, because they can be used to judge  
Advanced pilots and free up Master class pilots to judge F3A.  There  
have been some Intermediate pilots who even had sufficient  
qualifications to judge Master class pilots.  So, my advice is to  
Intermediate class is to list your qualifications on the entry form  
so the Nats event director can use you.  Besides, ii's a lot more fun  
than running transmitter impound, which the 'unknown' Intermediate  
class pilots will do if they don't judge.

Ron Van Putte.

>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: 03:14 PM CST, 03/24/2006
> From: Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
> To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Nats. 06 question
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Archie Stafford wrote:
>
>> In every year past.   Intermediate flies at the same time as
>> Masters, and Advanced with FAI.  When they have flipped the time
>> schedules, they’ve done it for both Masters/FAI and Intermediate/
>> Advanced.
>
> Let me expand on what Arch wrote.  The AMA property has three flying
> sites that we use for competition.  We use two sites for the Master
> and F3A classes.  One site is used for Intermediate and Advanced.  As
> a result of requiring each class of pilots to judge the next 'lower'
> class, Advanced can't fly at the same time as Intermediate.  The same
> is true for Master and F3A.  Master pilots judge Advanced and F3A, so
> they must fly in different sessions.  So, one session (either morning
> or afternoon on alternating years) will have Intermediate and Master
> pilots competing.  The other session will have Advanced and F3A
> competing.  I hope this helps.
>
> Ron Van Putte
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>> discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of  
>> vicenterc at comcast.net
>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:24 PM
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>> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Nats. 06 question
>>
>>
>>
>> I am planing to go with a friend flying different classes to 2006
>> Nats.  We would like to know what is the day time schedule for each
>> class?  The idea is to call for each other if possible.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Vicente Bortone
>>
>>
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