[NSRCA-discussion] Are we behind the times?

[Matthew Frederick]

Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Are we behind the times?I think that is an interesting idea, but probably not a good idea in practice. There is enough pressure on a pilot during a flight, imagine if you were only halfway through your sequence and you could tell from the crowd's reaction that you had zeroed a snap. Makes concentrating on the rest of the flight a little more difficult.

Just my thoughts on that.

Matt
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  From: Mark Atwood 
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  I've been talking about this for years.  If there was a simple electronic scoreboard posting raw scores, it would make for a much better spectator sport.  Yes, there would be some booing as a snap was scored or zeroed, but I'm not sure that that's a bad thing.  I might find it to be disruptive to hear all the laughing, but I'd get used to it.  Heck, I am used to it :)

  I can only imagine the cries when a wrong maneuver is flown and everyone but the judges know it.


  On 8/27/07 1:37 PM, "Derek Koopowitz" <derekkoopowitz at gmail.com> wrote:


    There is a thread on RCU under the "Classic Pattern Flying" forum about the team selection in 1972.  Way back then they were posting real time scores of pilots as they flew - apparently they had a "reporter" that looked over the judges shoulders as they scored each maneuver and then radioed them to someone that posted/wrote the scores of each maneuver as they were flown onto a poster size scoresheet attached to a board. 
     
    With the technology available to us today I would love to see this at future contests - can you just imagine all the "oohhhss and aahhhs" from the spectators.  :)


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