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<DIV><<<<<<<<<<<<but to the pilot that
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Best Schedule"???????............highly open to
interpretive biases ! Ya need a better term, Dave.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=DaveL322@comcast.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:57
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
Impression or precision judging?</DIV>
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<DIV>My problem with S+G is that it is not adequately defined, and never will
be, because of the subjective nature. Precision is supposed to be the
priority, and a technically perfect maneuver should be a 10 (and a "smoother"
manuever should not be an eleven, despite claims that some scales of
measurement do go to "eleven").</DIV>
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<DIV>A "crisp" flying style is never at risk of lacking definition for
start/stop of rolls/corners, but has higher risk for actually hitting all the
rolls and lines. A "smooth" flying style is more at risk for maintaining
definition, but more at risk for lacking definition. It is a balancing
act between the two styles/approaches to find the best ratio of easiest to
fly, lowest exposure, and maintaining definition.</DIV>
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<DIV>Nitpick - we are not striving to give the highest rewards to the pilot
that demonstrates the most skill, but to the pilot that presents the best
schedule. How much skill used by a pilot in a given routine is not
relevant - easiest example is when Pilot A flies in calm air, and Pilot B
flies in extremely windy/turbulent air. The fact that Pilot B may be
known to be the better pilot and the clear winner in equal weather conditions
is of no conisideration for the judge - the best schedule should score the
highest, even if it clear that greater skill were employed on a lesser quality
schedule (in poor weather conditions).</DIV>
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<DIV>Dave</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is the issue for those who are against scoring
S&G that you don't feel S&G should be rewarded, or is it that we
have not adequately defined how the S&G score should be
applied? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm a logical guy and can't determine how
S&G should be applied, this bothers me. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>HOWEVER, there's an innate sense in me that
says if a pilot has enough control over his plane to stretch a slow roll
from horizon to horizon, or to slowly and cleanly draw out his 4 of 8 in a
Cuban Eight then that pilot should prevail over one that does the
minimum length slow roll and four quick, jerky (but accurate) points in
the Cuban.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some pilots clearly have more control over
their planes and open themselves to more exposure by making nice slow rolls
and radii and therefore if each pilot flew a maneuver with 1/2 point
geometry downgrade it seems to go against what we're all striving for NOT to
reward the one that demonstrated more control (skill).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem is that we haven't defined
specifically how this should be applied. Perhaps that was intentional to
allow flexibility in rewarding what was inherently understand, I'm not
sure.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith Black</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:06
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
Impression or precision judging?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Even if the S&G criteria were removed
from the rulebook, it would remain in the subconcious. There is just
something in the depths of the human psyche that cries out for a way to
award the performance accomplished with polish in a way that separates it
from the one executed with mediocrity. That has to be IMPRESSION
guys..........I think.................</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>G.</FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=patterndude@comcast.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 03, 2006
10:07 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
Impression or precision judging?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm a ditto head to Dave on this one.
I can't imagine a situation where someone could fly perfect precision
- I mean really perfect with all lines straight, radiuses
matched, etc that should not get scored all 10s. How would the
pattern be flown differently to introduct S&G and maintain
10s? Should a very smooth and graceful sequence flown with a bunch
of 9.5 precision scores (actual defects that cause a .5 point downgrade)
be given 10s? If we were to eliminate S&G and have only
downgrades for precision errors then judges must interpret S&G
critically in that S&G flair can hurt but not help a manuver.
truth is, pilots will use S&G to mask precision errors, or to mask
difficult timing and centering issues. I watch pilots much better
than me get away with murder but do it so purposefully and smooth that
judges don't seem to even see it. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eliminating S&G from the judging
criteria would not eliminate S&G from flying nor from judging, but
it would weaken it as a reason to downgrade. If all you can say is
that the manuver seemed technically correct but there was "something"
wrong, then what you are really saying is that it was not technically
correct and you saw the downgrade but you just can't put your finger on
it in your conscious mind. I would be OK with admitting that was
my limitation as a human judge and I will not penalize the pilot for
it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Lance</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 03, 2006
10:04 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
Impression or precision judging?</DIV>
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<DIV>Technically perfect is well understood and can be objectively
assessed. Specific judging criteria and downgrades are well
defined/documented in our judges guide. Yes, gray areas do exist
in which it is difficult to extract an exact point value downgrade
from the rulebook, but guidance/basis is there, and it is the job of a
judge to make judgements (and in my experience 90% of the time the
answer to the gray areas is apply 1 point per 15 degrees).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Smooth and graceful (S+G) is subjective, and to date has never
had a point value or downgrades associated with it. The S+G
criteria allows an impression judge to score a technically
flawed maneuver higher than a technically perfect maneuver.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Should a sequence that is flown technically perfect be awarded
the highest score? </DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Should it be possible to outscore a technically perfect sequence
with a technically flawed one that is "more smooth" or "more
graceful"?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I don't think we should include (S+G) or pursue (Impression
score) criteria which are ill-defined or purely subjective - pattern
is about precision aerobatics which can be (is) well defined, and is a
thing of beauty (to the select few that appreciate it) without the
need for S+G, style, or impression points.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Dave Lockhart</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="mailto:DaveL322@comcast.net">DaveL322@comcast.net</A></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’d love to
hear some feedback to the following: (or maybe not, but it might
help my understanding of what we’re trying to accomplish in our
judging/flying</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings color=navy
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Isn’t
clinical precision flying the only way to attempt to remove
impression judging? Shouldn’t the sequence itself if flown to
precision “be” the art form?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Example 1:
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I saw one
pilot fly the FAI sequence at our contest last June…. To me his
flying was clinically precise without any “Style” of his own.
I mean that very much as a compliment. The roll rates and
radiuses and speeds to me were very consistent….his timing and
flight line control were very “Clinically precise” It struck
me at that if a computer GPS link could have been flown with an
autopilot laying out the perfectly executed sequence he would have
been close. The nearly perfect geometry of the sequence spoke
for itself.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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2:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">An example
of impression that I can think of would be some of the point rolls
that I used to see in the 70’s….the ones that kind of slip &
lock into each point (exaggerated lock in), but I could not score
them better than points that merely stop where they are supposed to
with minimum fanfare…..could I? (In fact since one could argue that
the roll rate changes to get that effect it could be downgraded
more…..) But I like it, its an individual preference, but to
the letter of the law its incorrect.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Maybe we
should judge by technical merit and each judge give an overall
“Impression” rating someplace on the
scoresheet???<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Wow I
spent all this time trying to think of how to word this….Gee do I
hit the send button…….?????? I hope this strikes a positive
chord somewhere…okay my motive is to learn so I’ll send
it.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
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White<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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