[NSRCA-discussion] WRAP UP - Advancement

[J N Hiller]

John I stripped the following from something I was working on some time back.
 
"Have you ever looked at it this way?
I have been an enthusiastic participant in 'Turn Around' pattern from day one because of it's challenging and continuous activity. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed stretched eight point rolls that would blow both ends of the box, but the turnarounds were redundant and only occasionally interesting. 
As I remember in the late eighties the master class adopted a prior FAI schedule that we continued to fly it for seven years. During that time I developed a sense of flying a single flight plan consisting of a single continuous string of aerobatic elements, from box entry to box exit. Execution of a flight plan is the objective rather than starting and completing a series of individual maneuver as in pre-turnaround pattern. 
Flight plans having little more than a dozen to well over a hundred judged aerobatic elements are present in the various competition classes. The continuous string of aerobatic elements is broken into convenient groups or packages (Maneuvers) primarily to facilitate support activities such as flight plan construction and scoring. Unless I have counted wrong the first flight plan (1 of 3) in the sportsman schedule (maneuvers 2 through 6) has 17 elements where more complex maneuvers such as a double stall turn with 3/4 rolls (Figure M) consists of 18 including the maneuver separation line".
 
Jim Hiller
 
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Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:38 AM
To: Dave Burton; nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] WRAP UP - Advancement
 
I'm pretty sure they're all posted in Aresti now. I see no reason why we can't publish the Pattern schedules in both "English descriptions" AND Aresti. I would just like to see more use of Aresti, that's all. I hear your point about it being a hurdle for newcomers and for that reason alone I think it makes sense to publish the schedules (at least Sportsman and Intermediate) in both "languages". I know it's more work but I think in the long run it makes sense.
 
If you call the Aresti as you see it it's actually pretty easy: An "Immelmann" is actually a half-loop with a half-roll. Isn't that how you tell a newcomer to fly the maneuver? Many of them don't know the names of all the maneuvers or even understand the difference between a half-cuban-8 and a half-reverse-cuban-8. If they just learned the basic Aresti symbols they could fly all of the maneuvers without even knowing what they're called.
 
John Pavlick

--- On Mon, 5/11/09, Dave Burton <burtona at atmc.net> wrote:
From: Dave Burton <burtona at atmc.net>
Subject: RE: [NSRCA-discussion] WRAP UP - Advancement
To: jpavlick at idseng.com
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:23 PM
I haven’t looked at the IMAC web site in a while, but I think they used to have English translated sequences for the beginning classes.
 
Other than some folks think it’s “Cool”, what advantage is there to publish the sequences in Aresti?
 
 
 
 
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