<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">As a former Nats event director, I must point out that the Master class pilots are used to judge the Advanced AND F3A pilots, thus the problem with the number of Master class pilots. If you use three judges on both Advanced lines, that's six judges each session. Then, if there are four F3A lines, that's another twelve judges. So, the first two sessions of Advanced and F3A requires 36 Master class judges. Oh oh! we run out of Master class judges on the third day if we only have 40 Master class pilots and nobody volunteers to judge extra sessions. That's why Dave Guerin's hair is turning gray/falling out.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron Van Putte</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 13, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Derek Koopowitz wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>And for one year there will actually be enough judges to judge Masters - we've always struggled with not having enough F3A pilots to fill the Masters judging pool.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 6/13/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Jim Woodward</B> <<A href="mailto:Jim.Woodward@armorholdings.com">Jim.Woodward@armorholdings.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"> <DIV><P><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wow – Awesome! The Masters pilots will get a taste of judging a highly attended FAI class! </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Wingdings" color="navy" size="2"> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Wingdings" color="navy" size="2"> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Wingdings" color="navy" size="2"> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jim W.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV> <DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <HR align="center" width="100%" size="2"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><P><B><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank"> nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</A> [mailto:<A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org </A>] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Derek Koopowitz<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:41 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> NSRCA Mailing List; <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:dist7@nsrca.org" target="_blank">dist7@nsrca.org</A><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [NSRCA-discussion] Nats registration </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_1132622b9ea341cb_1"><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It looks like we have 115 total registered pilots for the Nats this year (from the AMA website)...</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Intermediate - 20</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Advanced - 16</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Masters - 40</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">FAI - 39</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Those are excellent #'s and I'm hoping that there will still be some late entries that will raise those numbers even more.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV> <DIV><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org"> NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A><BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion" target="_blank">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion </A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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