Doug without a doubt calling at this level is much harder than flying. I hate calling it's ok for someone you know and have worked with. I once traveled to a Masters (80's pattern not Don Lowe) with Earl Haury to call for him and it's to easy to call for him your just there to remind him of the manuvers he knows what to with the plane.<BR><BR><B><I>Doug Cronkhite <seefo@san.rr.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Heh.. yep. Things that like need to be figured out well ahead of time so <BR>the pilot isn't expecting something other than what's being delivered.<BR><BR>Two different years at the TOC I wound up calling for 3 different <BR>pilots, and they ALL wanted to be told different things in different <BR>ways. Jason just wanted the maneuvers called with roll directions to <BR>keep him on track in the sequence. More often than not, he'd already <BR>memorized the entire
thing INCLUDING unknowns. Jason could commit a <BR>sequence to memory quicker than anyone I've ever flown with. Mike <BR>McConville wanted more verbage but was pretty much the same except I <BR>called out all points of a point roll, roll directions and talked a <BR>little more on position and such, and then Kirk Gray liked me talking to <BR>him the whole time.<BR><BR>For me, the hardest thing about being a caller at that level was the <BR>preparation. Every sequence was written out and rehearsed 4 different <BR>ways (left to right, right to left, with both versions to move the <BR>flight line in or out depending upon wind conditions). This sort of <BR>thing also emphasized how much trust the pilot has to have in their <BR>caller, such that when the caller says to do something, the pilot does <BR>it without hesitation or question.<BR><BR>-Doug<BR><BR><BR><BR>Ken Thompson wrote:<BR>> Let me tell you one thing Doug,<BR>><BR>> I went to the TAS this year to be the
caller for a friend of mine. When it <BR>> came time to call the unknowns, one of the guys gave me a little flack for <BR>> not giving out things like rudder correction...I said, "Are you kidding? I <BR>> spent all my time making sure I didn't get one of the maneuvers wrong and <BR>> cost him points in that manner, the rest is up to him". :-)<BR>><BR>> <BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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