[NSRCA-discussion] Advancement: let's wrap it up

[Lance Van Nostrand]

http://www.modelaircraft.org/PDF-files/333.pdf

Here's the rules proposal form.  If we can get one or three people to fill it in and post it for review here maybe this discussion will result in something.

Here's a summary of what I think I've read (beware of severe summarizing):
Advancement rules based on hard numbers (like 100 points) are wrong because some people go to more contests or some districts have more pilots.  A system based on percentages would be better.  We've heard a comparison to a national average (need an implementable procedure to accurately compute this), force up of the district champs, and accumulating the raw scores for the year into averages that can be compared.

We've also heard of simply tracking and publishing points and letting heckling take care of the rest (really need a 3 or 4 year window on this to allow one to level off before masters).  Note: this was the way it was 4 years ago, but that was before every district could post points on their website.  It didn't work then.

Several recommendations to increase the points above 100, but this is really just an adjustment for the size of the district so if this can be modified into a way to calculate an advancement number by district, maybe it could work.

--Lance
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