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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How about a going in handicap based on your last
contest results. That would normalize everybody and then any controversy on
judging would be killed by " just a bad handicap-fix it next time"
response.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerry</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=khoard@gmail.com href="mailto:khoard@gmail.com">Keith Hoard</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:56
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rules
change proposal</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>What about guys that just can't fly as well as others in their
class?<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Jon Lowe <<A
href="mailto:jonlowe@aol.com">jonlowe@aol.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Ron,<BR>Given
all of that your factor would be in the thousands!!<BR><BR>
<DIV style="CLEAR: both">Jon Lowe</DIV><BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Ron Van Putte <<A href="mailto:vanputte@cox.net"
target=_blank>vanputte@cox.net</A>><BR>To: General pattern discussion
<<A href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org"
target=_blank>nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A>><BR>Sent: Tue, 29 Apr
2008 4:42 pm<BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rules change
proposal<BR><BR>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>I totally agree. However, there should be similar adjustments for
those who live/fly where it gets very hot. There should also be age
and pilot height adjustments for those who can't see as well, either
because their eyes are weaker, or the fact that shorter pilots must
look up further to see their airplanes. I just want to be fair too.
Ron Van Putte
On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:56 PM, John Konneker wrote:
> I have been impressed by the spirit of fair play and sportsmanship
> in the NSRCA since returning to pattern.
> I feel though that there has been an oversight in the rules that I
> think now could be corrected.
> I just got in from flying my Focus II for the first time since last
> October.
> It (I) was terrible! The long winter layoffs here in the northern
> climes imposes a real hardship on pattern pilots living here.
> To be fair I would like to propose an adjustment to the maneuver k-
> factors based on the annual mean temperature and
> extreme lows (I want to leave out highs) of where one lives.
> For example my lowest k-factor would be 10 for landing and takeoff
> and then go up from there according to degree of difficulty of
> maneuver. In some cases I can see 20+ easily.
> Folks like Derek, Ron Davies, Chris Fitzsimmons living in
> California would have highest k-factors of 1...who knows...maybe
> even fractional or minus. These k-factors would be assigned by
> pilot and voted on only by members that have at least 24" of snow
> each year.
> What do you all think?
> I want to be fair.
> JLK
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