<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hey Tommy</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Flying slower makes sense for most of
us as it does allow much more time and is easier to get the geometry correct.
Flying the entire sequence at full throttle is not a downgrade if it is
smooth and graceful and all geometry is executed properly. The problem
lay in the fact that many say that if it is not slow then it is not S&G,
or one step further, if all aspects are not the same speed then it is not
S&G. This is not in the rules, and that is a problem. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hopefully, when that judge told you
that you would have flown better if you had flown slower, he meant so you
could be smoother or get better geometry, but I cringe to think that some
judge downgraded you because he thought you flew above his imaginary speed
limit....that is what needs to stop.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">By the way...I get downgraded too because
my uplines are faster than my horizontal lines. Its a quirk in my
brain that I am trying to fix, because I know that when I fix it I will
be flying better.....but its not in the rules! Certain guys in our
district always hit me with this , and I am proud to say that I never retaliate
in the chair. I find it better to somehow charge a beer to their account
at the Saturday night dinner without them knowing. That is true revenge
for makin' up the rules...............</font>
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Gray Fowler<br>
Senior Principal Chemical Engineer<br>
Radome and Composites Engineering<br>
Raytheon</font>
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<br><font size=3>Gray,</font>
<br><font size=3>You could not be more correct . A number of times I've
been told by a judge I would have</font>
<br><font size=3>scored better if I'd have flown slower.</font>
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<br><font size=3>tommy s<br>
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Gray E Fowler <gfowler@raytheon.com></i></b> wrote:</font>
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"OK... make noticeable speed variations doing your maneuvers in your
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sequence.... watch your score.<br>
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If you vary your speed... you're gonna get downgrades. Prove it wrong
by <br>
varying speed but doing the maneuver the correct shape and getting a 10.
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will not happen."</tt></font><font size=3> <br>
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Fred you probably are correct, your scores will suffer. Daves point is
(and my installing exclaimations points) that this is not in the rules
and any of you that are judging per this criteria are wrong and are damaging
our beloved hobby. Be fair people and follow the rules, not your
bias, as you will never know what the other judge's bias could possibly
be...and I have heard many idiotic based judging bias. <br>
By the way I conducted a study, employed IPDS and produced a matrix
that proves that such judging bias is the reason why the number of pattern
flyers has steadily decreased over the last 20 years. If you wanna increase
our numbers eliminate judges who do not follow the rules, it will be approximately
74.571% more effective than creating a "new rule" eliminating
2M planes from lower classes.</font><font size=3> <br>
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Terminal Advanced Guy........until I can get rid of my kids...<br>
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Radome and Composites Engineering<br>
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