<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Whenever I've tried to coach a sport pilot on pattern, they hang in there right up to the first turnaround maneuver. . </div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Feb 2, 2012, at 20:04, Archie Stafford <<a href="mailto:astafford@md.metrocast.net">astafford@md.metrocast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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I have suggested this previously and was told this was too difficult for Sportsman pilots. I don’t agree with that at all. I would like to see the lower classes have some more challenging maneuvers, but less box stuff. I think this will attract guys to fly without having to invest a lot. There will be a big jump at some point between classes, and I believe between Intermediate and Advanced. By that time people know if they want to continue and can look to invest more time and effort into it. The approach that we can make the patterns smoothly flow from one class to another simply wont work without lowering the overall difficulty. We need to make it more fun for Sportsman to encourage new blood and let them see how much fun it can be. This is just my opinion, but this approach seemed to work well 15-20 years ago.<br>
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On 2/2/12 8:59 PM, "John Fuqua" <<a href="johnfuqua@embarqmail.com">johnfuqua@embarqmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:25 PM, "Verne Koester" <<a href="verne@twmi.rr.com">verne@twmi.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><font color="#1F497D"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt">It wasn’t the expense. It was the fact that an above-average sport pilot could do a pretty respectable job with that old Sportsman schedule without the full commitment that a full-time pattern pilot makes. Those guys had a blast going against their rivals in whatever region they lived in. Go somewhere else and it’d be an entirely different group having just as much fun flying against their pals.. A few of those guys would move up through the classes but most seemed to be quite happy and content to do 2 or 3 “local” contests a year and have at it against their pals. Turnaround raised the ante and the commitment to a level those guys obviously didn’t want to go to.<br>
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I never flew against any of those guys because my first contest away from my home field was in Advanced which is a long story in itself. Suffice to say, I wouldn’t have recommended it then and especially not now. FWIW, I love turnaround flying. I have just always thought we put a little too much pressure on those that want to give it a try and probably scare off some or many in the process. For those that might want to argue the point, forget it. Been there, done that, ain’t doing it no more.<br>
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</span></font><font><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>From:</b> <a href="nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a> [<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Vogel<br>
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On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:50 PM, "Del" <<a href="drykert2@rochester.rr.com">drykert2@rochester.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><font color="#0000FF"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>Your right Peter.. The beauty of that period of flying anyone with an Ugly stick or under powered kadet could enter and fly pattern. Attendance at meets was amazing at most parts of country. That style did get some heat as blamed for loss of fields from over flights of homes etc. but if the full truth were to be looked at all flying endeavors loud and noisy aircraft flying near and over homes was the bigger culprit. Pattern was at the forefront of addressing that and mandating a reasonable sound level at the nats especially but bonus points could be award for quiet aircraft and penalties for noisy planes. <br>
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OK. Looking at some of the old rule books, I'm confused. Take for example the novice sequence from 86-87: <br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">The procedure turn, stall turn, and Immelmann sure seem like turnarounds to me, granted to meet the mandatory directions relative to wind you would need to have a free turnaround between the straight flight back and the stall turn, and another free turnaround between the stall and the Immelmann, etc. So were all the "stunt" turns intended to be executed at show center with a free turnaround outside the box between each maneuver? <br>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:43 AM, J N Hiller <<a href="jnhiller@earthlink.net">jnhiller@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Some time back I applied K-factors to those non-turnaround schedules to try to understand the migration of increasing difficulty, concluding that the K-factor alone is a poor indicator of actual difficulty. But we all step up to the challenge regardless of the difficulty.<br>
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<b>From:</b> <a href="nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a> [<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>]<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Vogel<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:23 AM<br>
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I was reading some of the archived K-factors and it got me curious, is there an archive of the sequences pre-turnaround?<br>
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On Jan 31, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Joe Lachowski <<a href="jlachow@hotmail.com">jlachow@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
You can log on at the NSRCA website and then proceed to the judges section and click on archived documents. Thanks to Jim Hiller who provided me a lot of these, I was able to scan them in and put them into the PDF Format. Anyone who has anything older than whats up there, send a hard copy to me to scan and I'll have Derek put them up.<br>
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To: <a href="nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Fwd: Another discussion topic relating to new FAIrules<br>
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We have a pretty good collection of AMA and FAI rule books on the website if anyone wants to see what rules were like, or how much they have changed over the years... <br>
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Click on the link below:<br>
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Jon Lowe <<a href="jonlowe@aol.com">jonlowe@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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