[NSRCA-discussion] WRAP UP - Advancement

[Ron Hansen]

I'm in favor of making advancement a guideline.  Perhaps we need to
cover advancement as part of good sportsmanship and maybe include the
ability for the district to vote on whether someone is abusing the
absence of a mandatory advancement rule.  For example, leave it to the
discretion of the District VP or a majority vote of the district
members.  If the district decides someone needs to move up the
competitor would have the option to stay where he or she is and not
qualify for prizes and district points or move up at the end of the
year.
 
What about the ability to move down?  For example, someone tries Masters
for one or two contests and then decides they are still not ready and
wants to move back down.  Do the current rules properly address this?
 
Ron
 
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Years ago when the Sportsman sequence was rather short, some CD's were
doing the sequence twice.   A rule was written to codify the practice,
and provide suggested procedures on exit/entry between the sequences,
and handle scoring of one take off & landing, but two sequences.  It's
still in the book,  para 14.8.   Given current length of Sportsman
sequence, it's rarely used.

Ron Lockhart

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Snaproll4 at aol.com wrote: 
CD's used to have the ability to have Sportsman fly twice which isn't in
the rule book.  They now can have an Expert class which isn't in the
rule book.  Can CD's suspend the advancement rule?  Just thinking out
loud.
 
Steve 
Interesting question. The AMA gives CDs broad powers to waive rules as
they see fit, but those usually pertain to the safe operation of a
contest. The caveat is that the CD must publish any variations within 30
days of the event and it is best to list them in the sanction
application. Changes can be made on the spot due to weather, etc., but
it would be hard to see how advancement fits into that. So I suspect
taht it would be difficult for a CD to do waht you suggest. What a CD
could do I suppose is to allow a certain individual to fly a lower
class, but again, that might be a stretch.




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