[NSRCA-discussion] Nats registration

Mark Atwood atwoodm at paragon-inc.com
Thu Jun 14 07:44:31 AKDT 2007 

I¹m going to simply agree to disagree.  Experience in flying, helps your
experience in judging, IMHO.

I¹ll use a few analogies...    Chess.  I know the rules.  I¹m even a decent
player.  My son is 10...also knows the rules, and for 10, plays ok.  But
when he looks at the board, he sees 64 squares and a myriad of pieces.  He
has to evaluate each piece in turn, taking considerable time to make his
move.  By contrast, my experience allows me to set ³groups² of pieces as a
single formation...a master player, sees the entire board as a single
position, and knows instantly the next move to make.

One more quick comparison and I¹ll try and related it to pattern
judging...lol

Diving.  How many of you have watched the olympic diving and seen someone do
a blinding 3 somersault half twist whatever, only to have the announcer
say...²He¹s going to have to do a better job of keeping his knees together
and holding the tuck farther in the rotation...blah blah blah² and think to
yourself HUH?? Did they actually SEE that??  And sure enough, in the slow
mo...that¹s EXACTLY what happened.  The commentator DIDN¹T see it...but they
knew from the outcome WHAT MUST HAVE OCCURRED TO GET THERE from their own
experience.

Back to flying.  Much of what we do is anticipate problems and fix them.
Some may disagree, but often, judging is know what must have happened to get
you into the bad place.  That takes experience...I think flying experience,
though I suppose significant judging experience could achieve the same.
Bottom line...a sportsman/intermediate pilot, unless they¹ve been flying and
judging that class for many years, doesn¹t have the experience necessary to
judge FAI or Masters Real Time.  You have to see too much, too fast.  You
can¹t evaluate all the pieces on the board...you have to see the board as a
single position.

My .02 cents.

That being said...I fully agree that Intermediate pilots should be used to
judge Advanced...mixed with Masters pilots...thats the best way to learn and
you¹ll still get a good judging result.

-Mark


On 6/14/07 10:57 AM, "Zapata, Lisandro Arturo" <Lisandro.Zapata at rsandh.com>
wrote:

>  
> IMHO
>  
> Even a Sportman who barely know to fly their own sequences, doesn't mean that
> can't judge even FAI pilots. If he has the knowledge and the ability to judge
> correctly then you should use him to judge FAI. Is common to think that a FAI
> pilot who has to know to fly with all the rules in his mind must be a great
> judge but is not always the case, they can be a terrible judge and a great
> flyer.
> I had seen FAI judges that they aren't even pilots, but they know the rules.
>  
> Arturo
> 
> 
> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Ron Van Putte
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:34 AM
> To: NSRCA Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Nats registration
> 
> My comments regarding not all Intermediate class pilots being qualified to
> judge Advanced is from experience.  A lot of Intermediate class pilots just
> moved up from Sportsman and barely know how to fly their own sequences, much
> less judge a class above them.  They don't have the basic knowledge of how to
> judge correctly.  I've had Intermediate pilots ask to be assigned to any other
> job than being a judge of Advanced pilots because they didn't feel qualified.
> 
> Further, like all programs, our judging certification program often leaves a
> lot to be desired.  Despite the efforts of a lot of people like Don Ramsey,
> how many pilots just got certified by sitting in a group with a lot of other
> guys who all took the "test" together?  I've seen it happen far too often.
> Judge certification classes run by Don Ramsey at the Nats take several hours.
> I've watched some local classes take less than an hour and most of that was
> taking the test.  For experienced judges, just taking the test is probably
> enough, because they have familiarized themselves with changes to the rules
> and only need to take the test.  However, I believe that pilots who are
> inexperienced judges are being shortchanged at the local level.
> 
> Ron Van Putte
> 
> 
> On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:12 AM, John Ferrell wrote:
> 
>>  
>> I find the lack of confidence in the Judging  Certification Program to be an
>> insult to those who put forth so much effort  into it.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> There are still a lot of Masters/FAI pilots who  choose to not waste their
>> time knowing the AMA rule book. And there are many  pilots who are new to the
>> Pattern Discipline that have read and continue to  read the Rule book like
>> the Bible!
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> The class one flies is not a good indicator of  their judging qualities.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> John Ferrell    W8CCW
>> "Life is  easier if you learn to plow
>>        around  the stumps"
>> http://DixieNC.US
>>  
>>>  
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>  
>>> From:  Ron Van Putte <mailto:vanputte at cox.net>
>>>  
>>> To: NSRCA Mailing List <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>>>  
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:44  PM
>>>  
>>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Nats  registration
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> It is true that SOME  Intermediate pilots are qualified to judge Advanced
>>> and are used if they  are.  The event director's job is to discover who is
>>> qualified.   That's why we pay him the big $.  <VBG>
>>> 
>>>  
>>> Ron Van Putte
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>>  
>>> On Jun 13, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Derek Koopowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>  
>>>> Provided that the Intermediate pilots aren't  qualified to judge Advanced,
>>>> right?  And since there are 20  Intermediate pilots they can help out with
>>>> judging Advanced as well -  since everyone has to be certified.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> On 6/13/07, Ron Van  Putte <vanputte at cox.net>  wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>> As a former Nats event director, I  must point out that the Master class
>>>>> pilots are used to judge the  Advanced AND F3A pilots, thus the problem
>>>>> with the number of Master  class pilots.  If you use three judges on both
>>>>> Advanced lines,  that's six judges each session.  Then, if there are four
>>>>> F3A lines,  that's another twelve judges.  So, the first two sessions of
>>>>> Advanced and F3A requires 36 Master class judges.   Oh oh! we  run out of
>>>>> Master class judges on the third day if we only have 40  Master class
>>>>> pilots and nobody volunteers to judge extra sessions.   That's why Dave
>>>>> Guerin's hair is turning gray/falling out.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>> Ron Van Putte
>>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>> On Jun 13, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Derek Koopowitz wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> And for one year there will actually be enough judges to judge  Masters -
>>>>>> we've always struggled with not having enough F3A pilots to  fill the
>>>>>> Masters judging pool.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> On 6/13/07, Jim  Woodward <Jim.Woodward at armorholdings.com
>>>>>> <mailto:Jim.Woodward at armorholdings.com> > wrote:
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Wow ­  Awesome!  The Masters pilots will get a taste of judging a
>>>>>>> highly attended FAI class!  J  J  J
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jim  W.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
>>>>>>> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
>>>>>>> <mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org> ]  On Behalf Of Derek
>>>>>>> Koopowitz
>>>>>>> Sent:  Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:41 PM
>>>>>>> To: NSRCA Mailing List; dist7 at nsrca.org
>>>>>>> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion]  Nats registration
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It looks like we have 115 total registered  pilots for the Nats this
>>>>>>> year (from the AMA  website)...
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Intermediate - 20
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Advanced - 16
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Masters - 40
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> FAI - 39
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Those are excellent #'s and I'm hoping that  there will still be some
>>>>>>> late entries that will raise those numbers  even more.
>>>>>>>  
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