<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I think a 4 point would be great for intermediate. It gets you ready for a slow roll in advanced as it helps you learn the rudder. You most likely aren't going to learn to roll comfortably with rudder in intermediate without being forced to learn it. I didn't use rudder till advanced, as that's when I was forced to learn it. <br><br>IMO, sportsman is the entry class. Exit the box. That's fine. Could help with the nerves. Intermediate should start to learn rudder, and rudder corrections. Not master them, but start to learn them. A 4 point could help with this. Advanced is where you master rudder corrections (inverted and upright) which sets you up nicely for masters. Masters should be somewhat difficult as it is a destination class. There should be a or some integrated rolling elements (point
of continuous). You would find less people in Masters if they weren't ready for it. And it would make the move to FAI much easier. <br><br>Back to painting...<br><div> </div><div><strong><em><font color="#0000bf" face="comic sans ms" size="3">Chris </font></em></strong></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm@paragon-inc.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, October 20, 2009 2:22:06 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rules
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">No, I’ll agree to disagree. I think you begin using roll with
rudder as you’re LEAVING intermediate. Putting in a slow roll would require
you to use it upon entry into that class which means you would need to be doing
it at the end of sportsman which is almost ridiculous. When you’re rolling
comfortably with rudder, it’s time for Advanced and point and slow rolls. </span></p>
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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>RON
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<b>To:</b> General pattern discussion<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Mark you just supported my
point. Sean is learning to use elevator on his rolls in sportsman as he
should before moving up. I bet most sportsman pilots don't use elevator
at all before moving up (I'm guilty of that). I also have seen a lot of
intermediate pilots fly 2 rolls without using rudder. I've even had folks
tell me not to use rudder on my 2 rolls. I believe this is bad
advice. Slow rolls and point rolls in intermediate would force
intermediate pilots to learn to roll with rudder before moving up.
Requiring advanced pilots to learn slightly more complicated rolling maneuvers
(yet less complicated rolling maneuvers than masters) would lessen the gap
between classes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">I've never used crack. Hg
yes everyday twice a day:)</span></p>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Mark Atwood" <atwoodm@paragon-inc.com><br>
To: "General pattern discussion"
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Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:32:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ron?? You’re smokin’ crack again. STOP
that… Or wait, was that playing with Mercury…”No ill
effects”…</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">You’ve been flying Intermediate for several years and you’re
close to moving out of it. On the other end though are the guys just
leaving Sportsman. Adding point roll’s or any of the things you mention
would make their heads explode. I’m just trying to get
Sean (son) to roll well with elevator and not pitch up 20deg before
starting. We’ll get that down in Sportsman, but we’ll save learning to
slow roll, or even add rudder through the roll in a ½ reverse Cuban for
Intermediate.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Rolling with rudder is usually the last thing someone perfects
as they’re cleaning up the hardward in Intermediate getting ready to move onto
Advanced. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>RON
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> jpavlick@idseng.com; General pattern discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rules proposal 11-6 question</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">When I suggested that
intermediate and advanced be more difficult what I was suggesting was that we
need to build up more gradually. For an example, I believe two horizontal
rolls done using rudder and elevator is more difficult than one slow roll or
one 4 pt roll. I learned to roll using rubber and elevator by starting
with a 4 pt roll. I've heard others doing the same. I agree that
this can be taken to extremes. For example, I've heard folks suggest that
intermediate add 3 rolls. I believe this will cause pilots to drop the
rudder and only use elevator which I believe is detrimental later on (all rolls
should include rudder and elevator). Maybe move the 4 pt roll and the
slow roll down to intermediate and add some more complicated rolling maneuvers
such as 2 half rolls reversed inverted to inverted or 2 half rolls reversed
knife edged to knife edge. These or similar changes would close the
gap between the various classes.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Having the turnarounds AND box exits in Sportsman is a
good thing, I think. As long as the turnarounds are not cross-box
maneuvers (like a Humpty) then I don't think it's asking too much of a
Sportsman pilot to try to keep things in the box until they get a break (box
exit). This is very good at preparing them for Intermediate (NO box exits) as
Pete said, yet it gives them some way to correct their lines.What tends to
happen to ALL of us is this: One little error moves your line. Then another
moves your line some more. Until you've learned how to correct your lines
smoothly and / or simply not make those errors in the first place (or at
least make them to a lesser degree) the errors accumulate and without box
exits, you only have cross-box maneuvers to help you correct them. Sportsman
doesn't have any cross-box maneuvers so how would they correct their line?
With box exits of course. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As a few people have said - and I say this all the time:
the sequence you fly contains the maneuvers which you are <em>judged</em> on.
This doesn't mean that you can't fly different maneuvers and / or sequences
when you practice. Do you guys just go to the field and fly <em>your</em>
sequence over and over <em>every</em> time? If so then I think you're
missing out on something very important. The difficulty between Masters and
Sportsman is (and should be) somewhat extreme. Yet there are only 4 classes
that must deal with this range of skills. It's nearly impossible to
make each progression seamless. You <em>must </em>learn at least some new
skills on your own. You can't expect that by repeatedly flying Advanced,
you'll somehow magically be prepared to fly Masters when you point out. Trust
me, you won't. VBG</p>
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--- On <b>Tue, 10/20/09, Pete Cosky <i><pcosky@comcast.net></i></b>
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From: Pete Cosky <pcosky@comcast.net><br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rules proposal 11-6 question<br>
To: "General pattern discussion"
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Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 1:04 PM</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
partially agree with your last post but those building blocks have to
come from somewhere. From my experience, I moved out of Sportsman 4 years
ago and then stopped flying to help raise my son until this year when I
got to fly again in Intermediate. My flights were ugly but at least I had an
idea of how it all had to go together because I learned those building blocks
in Sportsman. IF what is proposed were to have happened in my particular case
it would have been quite the obstacle to overcome and probably would have
taken some of the fun out flying pattern for me.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If
a pilot needs work on geometry, and I know I sure do, then take the time to
practice the given maneuver outside the sequence. Go and burn a few tanks
flying the problem maneuvers and nothing else. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My
opinion is Sportsman is fine the way it is and it lays a good foundation for
the progression in the classes.</span></p>
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