[NSRCA-discussion] basic judging question (warning 3 letter word)

[Keith Black]

I know the USA centric thinkers won't like this, but I think we should stay
consistent with the FAI descriptions of the maneuver. Like it or not RC
Aerobatics is not that big of a pond. Why in the AMA (all one or two hundred
of us active Pattern fliers) do we have to have our own definitions? Many
countries ONLY fly FAI. It's cool that the AMA has it's own classes,
sequences, even event rules, but why have our own maneuver descriptions?

Seems to me that we just create confusion for judges and pilots alike when
we have different maneuver descriptions from the rest of the world. If we
feel a description is poorly defined why not appeal to the FAI?

Keith Black


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:16 PM, <ronlock at comcast.net> wrote:

>  "Maneuvers should be easy to judge and hard to fly."   An old and
> excellent concept!
>
> We have been working on describing a snap and  judging them for lots of
> years.
> Descriptions are pretty good.   Judging consistently and accurately is
> still not good.
> Guess we need to keep working on it, not that we have not been trying.
>
> In the meantime, do we continue using maneuvers with snaps, knowing the
> judging is likely inconsistent?   There is an argument to be made; they need
> to stay in schedules so pilots and judges can practice them.
>
> While practice goes on another X years, round scores continue to be heavily
> influenced by the scores on high K snap maneuvers.  We could fix most of
> that, by assigning a low K to snap maneuvers.    Got a better idea?
>
> Ron Lockhart
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Ferrell" <jferrell13 at triad.rr.com>
> To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 12:04:51 PM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] basic judging question
>
> I have always felt that if you cannot get consistent judging on a maneuver
> it should no be in the sequence...
>
> Maneuvers should be easy to judge and hard to fly.
>
> John Ferrell  W8CCW
>
> "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of
> justice is no virtue."
> -Barry Goldwater
> "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."
> -Doug Floyd
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com>
> *To:* General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:11 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] basic judging question
>
>   It is unfortunate that we sometimes have to "adjust" our flying to give
> the judges what they are looking for, even if what they are looking for may
> be wrong.  Unfortunately I always had difficulty doing that. :-(
>
> Bob R.
>
> --- On *Thu, 10/8/09, Vicente "Vince" Bortone <vicenterc at comcast.net>*wrote:
>
>
>  Don,
>
> If the plane skid into the wind the lines can not be exactly vertical and
> horizontal as described by both AMA and FAI.  Therefore, I am not sure how
> the 2 FAI pilots could be correct.  I guess that I have to follow your
> recommendation to get better scores.
>
> Vicente "Vince" Bortone
>
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