[NSRCA-discussion] stirring the pot..;)

[J Shu]

Now that I am done with my month and a half tour of the World...lol, it's time to get back down to business. Here's a few things I've noted while watching the list over the past months.

Sportsman has one sequence
Intermediate has one sequence
Advanced has one sequence
Masters has one sequence
Masters IS too long and should be shortened to the same maneuvers as FAI, IMO, and should always have scored take-off and landing. If one doesn't want to be scored on launches and arrivals... I mean take-offs and landings, fly FAI.

Should there be an Expert class added... pro's and con's either way.

FAI has two sequences plus two unknowns
Anyone that doesn't want to fly the current F schedule will not be flying FAI next year anyway. P-11 is as hard as F-09.
I am glad to be part of D3 that flies both P and F. When we first started this a few years ago, everyone had fun flying F, even if they had never practiced it. As for final results we've pretty much done this on a contest to contest basis. At Ocala we did the best 4 out of 6 total, other's we've done best 3-P's and 1-F. Not sure what we're gonna do at Andersonville.

Anyway, time to start building the new plane. It must still be raining here cause I see my car floating away.


Regards,
Jason
www.shulmanaviation.com
www.composite-arf.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Hunt 
  To: pattern discussion 
  Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 5:57 PM
  Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] stirring the pot..;)


  I have taken note that since we started flying the F pattern regularly on Sunday at local contests (couple years now), we have been scoring it in such a way that it is simply treated as a 6 round contest in which any combination of the F and P sequences may be the drop rounds.  I think the concensus originaly being that not everyone is comfortable flying the F, allowing those that only practice the P to be able to drop both F rounds (usually 2 F rounds on Sunday).

  Hypothetically, it could be run and tabulated in such a way that in a typical 6 round contest of 4 P's and 2 F's, you would drop one P and one F.  More of a Prelims and Finals style.

  It's not any serious concern to me, but I am curious, what is the concensus among FAI pilots now?  Just keep it the same, or consider changing?


  -mark


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