[NSRCA-discussion] If you don't score bytherules....don'tadvertise a rulebook event

[White, Chris]

Right on Richard....take command of the flight.  Something I used to
preach to my primary students in full-scale  (also when they are doing
that you can tell whether their techniques are correct and you don't
have to assume they know something because they just got lucky that
time....:)

Chris

 

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Strickland
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] If you don't score
bytherules....don'tadvertise a rulebook event

 

Another thought--sort of related--is the impression on who or what is in
control.  Is the guy or gal flying the airplane or simply guiding the
thing around?  When I get the impression that every movement is
controlled as opposed to pointed and banged, that person will score a
little higher as it appears more intentional.  For the most part(and I
know there are exceptions), the folks who take control from throttle up
on take-off to rollout after touchdown are the ones that win.

 

RS

 

 

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of mike
mueller
	Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 12:35 PM
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	Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] If you don't score by
therules....don'tadvertise a rulebook event

	 I think that the run and gun TO method is sometimes a matter of
safety. If you have a heavy crosswind at your back it's best to get the
plane running in a straight direction as soon as possible. With
taildraggers liking to weather vein as they do. When we were scoring
TO's on a 1 to 10 I saw a lot more close calls with the guys on the
upwind flight lines. I do agree that the landings with trike gears were
spectacular. Mike
	
	Richard Strickland <richard.s at allied-callaway.com> wrote: 

	 

		Cigarette butts(filters) used to make excellent wheel
chocks.  It was almost automatic to pick one up on the way out to set
the plane down and stick it in front of the nose wheel...  Saved time...
About the time I sort of got my act together on TOs and landings, they
quit scoring them(or I moved up and they didn't score them)--CRS disease
again...sigh...   With trikes, the cool deal was to lift the nose wheel,
roll along for awhile as the airplane gently lifted off.  Landing was to
wheel on the mains and gently lower the nose-OR hold it off for a while.
Seems like Steve Helms did some of the prettiest ones....

		 

		With conventional gear, pretty TOs and landings are a
little more difficult to do well, but I tend to think a guy that can run
it right down the centerline, roll it on and off smoothly OUGHT to have
an edge.  I know this has been suggested before--but a guy who does
lovely TOs and landings WILL make a better initial impression and the
judges will EXPECT a better flight.  The 'gun and go' guys are shooting
themselves in the foot.

		 

		RS

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