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

[twtaylor]

Lance one minor point that would kill the District Champion idea, Not all
pattern fliers are NSRCA members. We'd have to include non-members in the
point chase and that's not fair.

 

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

 

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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