[NSRCA-discussion] Judging Seminar Northern District 2

[Archie Stafford]

Don,

Great seminar.  The flying of the sequences on the simulator and judging the
flights was a great idea.

Arch



On 3/26/11 5:09 PM, "tocdon at netscape.net" <tocdon at netscape.net> wrote:

> Judging Seminar in Northern Virginia was a success.  We had 23 participants
> and excellent discussion which was really made in great part from Matt for
> coming through with the presentation material.   We spent the first hour going
> through the rules change summary for 2011 and the Judging Video.  Next we went
> through the tests.  The feedback was excellent with respect to an approach we
> used.  Those who pre-registered were asked to come to the seminar with their
> tests completed.  This allowed us to spend more time on the discussion of
> answers and helped the learning process.  Next we went through each powerpoint
> presentation (again thanks Matt and Ed for getting the draft out).  After we
> went through the powerpoint for each class, we would then judge a seqence real
> time that was pre-recorded on the flight simulator.  After the flight was
> judged, we discussed each score and the downgrades that judges saw.  We could
> re-wind and look at the maneuver again to discuss and observe the defects.
> This was really informative because in one instance a maneuver was really
> messed up, but the following maneuver was flown extremely well.  We were able
> to discuss how that could potentially impact scores of the follow on maneuver.
> Finally, several maneuvers were flown incorrectly and it helped to highlight
> that aspect (learning the sequences and how to spot incorrectly flown
> maneuvers). Joseph and I also pre-recorded some segments with cross-wind and
> how that looks with respect to drift  in stalled maneuvers (e.g., not a
> downgrade).   In the afternoon we had an outdoor flying segment with the Black
> Magic to complement the indoor session.  Stall turns and spin entries were
> demonstrated in the wind, along with other maneuvers which some of the
> participants wanted clarification on downgrades and also wind correction
> techniques.  Chris and Archie got a few flights on their new pattern planes
> and we all enjoyed the company and friendships built.  Several others got
> their planes trimmed out and ready for the season with lots of help available
> and dedicated to assist as needed.
>  
> I'd like to thank Matt and Ed (again) for the material, LCAA for hosting the
> event, NVRC for providing the lunch.
>  
> Link to the example video of Intermediate which we "judged" is located at:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKfcQ4JtZ-k   I thought I could upload to
> youtube directly but found I had to take a video of the video but in any event
> this approach seemed to work very well.
>  
> See you,
> Don
> 
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