[NSRCA-discussion] Anthony Manifesto/pattern participation

[Keith Black]

Thoughts on King Steve's thoughts. :)

1. Eliminate rules of advancement.. I'd be fine with this, but we already
added rules to prevent this from causing issues. Effectively you can camp
out in a class if you wish.

2. Strongly disagree. Turn around makes the game much more fun and is
needed in lower classes to prepare for the upper classes. I've helped
numerous sport fliers fly the sportsman pattern and though it's initially a
challenge I've not found the turn arounds to be the gating factor. Quite
the opposite, it teaches pilots to stay online. Also, Sportsman already has
"out of box" breaks.

Regarding the 2-meter limitation in Sportsman, I've never seen a sportsman
pilot not fly because there was someone else with a 2-meter plane that
showed up. BTW, in sportsman I could fly a trainer and beat a newbie with a
2-meter plane, it's really not about the plane in sportsman. It's about
flying straight lines.

3. Advanced is a launch pad to Masters, having only 50% turn around is a
terrible idea IMO, it's already a big jump to Masters. By Advanced most
guys are pretty darn good pilots.

4. I personally would have no objections to Masters flying P. Do consider
however that this prevents us from controlling the difficulty of Masters.
We could end up having a pattern that is too difficult or too easy. I can
see the discussion list now with people screaming that Masters has been
ruined or it has "plane killers" (remember the Reverse Avalanche?). Then
everyone will be demanding their independence from FAI. ;)

5.  No opinion.

Keith Black








On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Snaproll4--- via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> I do not want to be NSRCA president, but If I were NSRCA King, this is
> what I would do:
>
>   1.  Eliminate ALL mandatory advancement rules.  In fact, as King, I
> would ban all conversation about advancement.  I've been saying this for 20
> years, but every time this gets voted on, the proposal gets soundly
> defeated.  Can't we all name a pilot who moved up to Masters and then
> dropped out?  We should never have rules that discourage participation.
> This includes the rule about trying higher classes and not being able to
> move back down.
>
>
> 2.  Sportsman and Intermediate should be non-turnaround. Turnaround was
> the death of the casual competitor. No 2 meter planes will be allowed in
> Sportsman.  You're not going to get a club flyer to compete when there are
> 4 Allures and a Proteus in his class.  This is not supposed to be a money
> competition.
>
>
> 3. Advanced should be 50% turn-around and somewhat less difficult than it
> is today.  The emphasis here should be on the slightly more committed pilot
> and NOT as a building block for Masters.  This should become the new
> destination class.
>
>
> 4.  Masters should fly all rounds of FAI P, but not compete directly
> against FAI pilots.  I can put up a respectable P, but I don't want to fly
> against Team members. (besides, who would judge?)  The sequence would still
> change every 2 years. Think of the advantages in judging as FAI pilots and
> Masters usually judge each other.  This would eliminate the need for
> development of a new Masters schedule and let the sequence committee
> concentrate on the other 3 classes.
>
> 5.  It would be nice if we could make Sportsman two 1 day contests,
> consisting of 4 rounds each day.  Perhaps they could fly two rounds
> within each flight.  Yes, that would mean 3 more awards, but you can't
> expect Sportsman pilots to spend the time and money to go to 2 day
> contests.  This way, a pilot could do family stuff on Saturday and compete
> on Sunday.
>
> Steve Miller, NSRCA #673
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