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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think that is an interesting idea, but probably
not a good idea in practice. There is enough pressure on a pilot during a
flight, imagine if you were only halfway through your sequence and you could
tell from the crowd's reaction that you had zeroed a snap. Makes concentrating
on the rest of the flight a little more difficult.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just my thoughts on that.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Matt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">I’ve been talking about this for years. If there
was a simple electronic scoreboard posting raw scores, it would make for a
much better spectator sport. Yes, there would be some booing as a snap
was scored or zeroed, but I’m not sure that that’s a bad thing. I might
find it to be disruptive to hear all the laughing, but I’d get used to it.
Heck, I am used to it :)<BR><BR>I can only imagine the cries when a
wrong maneuver is flown and everyone but the judges know it.<BR><BR><BR>On
8/27/07 1:37 PM, "Derek Koopowitz" <derekkoopowitz@gmail.com>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">There is a thread on RCU under the "Classic Pattern
Flying" forum about the team selection in 1972. Way back then they
were posting real time scores of pilots as they flew - apparently they had a
"reporter" that looked over the judges shoulders as they scored each
maneuver and then radioed them to someone that posted/wrote the scores of
each maneuver as they were flown onto a poster size scoresheet attached to a
board. <BR> <BR>With the technology available to us today I would love
to see this at future contests - can you just imagine all the "oohhhss and
aahhhs" from the spectators. :)<BR><BR>
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