[NSRCA-discussion] NATS Participation

[John Gayer]

Sometimes it is the other way around at local contests.
The smaller size of contests often means there is no time to kick back 
and talk to people. With 20 contestants and two flight lines, you are 
either  getting ready to fly, flying, calling, judging, judging some 
more, helping fix a plane or helping out in some way with the contest.
By the end of the day, I am flat worn out.

The problem is the two flight lines being run so six competition flights 
can be done for all. If you go back to one line then the flights must 
move faster. We could:

 1. eliminate takeoffs and landings from being scored.
 2. get the next contestant in the air before last contestant lands.
 3. Try and come up with a couple of qualified judges that are not competing

Many contests fall into a range of 15 to 25 contestants that would be a 
lot more fun with such an arrangement. It would be interesting to get 
some numbers on the mah consumed per minute in loitering at low power.  
Also, having only five flights or flying later on Sunday would help too. 
Hmm, might even save a few midairs!

On the subject of judging at the Nats and not feeling qualified, if you 
are comfortable judging a class at home, you will be fine at the Nats. 
For example, if you are flying Masters and have never judged an FAI 
finals sequence or unknown but are assigned the FAI semis, I would 
expect you to express your reservations to the chief judge and get your 
judging assignment changed. That should not be a problem.  The top level 
of flying in each class is no better than some of the local contests. It 
is true that the depth of talent will probably increase.
Biggest judging problem I see is Sportsman and beginning Intermediates 
judging top level Advanced pilots at local contests. They do not yet 
have the eye to distinguish all the errors and are often not familiar 
with the sequence. leads to massive score compression. Two flight lines 
exacerbates the problem as Masters and FAI are usually on the same line 
and judge only for each other.

John


On 11/6/2016 9:08 AM, James Hiller via NSRCA-discussion wrote:
> NATS Participation
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> I as maybe others may not feel qualified to judgeNATS level competition.
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> Could the reduced participation be a result in part to mandatory judging?
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> Jim
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