[NSRCA-discussion] Judging Seminar Northern District 2

[Don Ramsey]

Don,

 

What flight simulator did you use to record the sequences?  Would you
recommend the simulator?

 

Don

 

 

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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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