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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I put “Stall-break” and it accepted that. I wasn’t taking any chances, I made sure to use the wording from the text. While we’re on the FAI test I seem to remember you having a problem with some of the wording as well. Here’s the issues I had:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Question 11 – The entries I made were reversed in the order I entered them when I viewed the results. I would have gotten it wrong anyway because instead of “one point per occurrence” I put “one point per event”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Question 30 – I used the only unacceptable variation. Given what I had seen as possible answers on the AMA test I put “1 to 4”. The only acceptable answers were “1-4”, “1 – 4”, “one – four”, and “one to four”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Question 35 – Again, the entries I made ended up being reversed when I reviewed them. Also, again, I would have gotten it wrong because of the same issue I had seen posted on here before, the difference between “downgraded severely” and “severely downgraded”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Question 41 – Got it wrong because I said that the rolling circle should end and the “same altitude” instead of the “same point”. Nevermind that if the radius was constant and the altitude was the same, the maneuver ends up at the same point.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Matt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ronald Van Putte<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 06, 2012 9:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> General pattern discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Not sure who handles this<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yeah, and in the question on the initiation of a snap roll, the aircraft must demonstrate a definite ____. I put STALL, but the "correct" answer was BREAK.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ron<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Matthew Frederick wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I just took the AMA Judge Certification test online. There were 3 questions that I got “wrong”, and looking through the acceptable answers I would like to point out a couple discrepancies. I passed the test but I thought this could make the test a little more friendly to those who aren’t thumbing through the certification materials to look up the answers.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Question 30 – Regarding radii of loop segments within a maneuver, I put “equal” and the acceptable answer was “identical”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Question 31 – Regarding major variations between radii and the downgrade. It is a fill-in-the blank that finishes <blank> points or more. Now the instructions stated each individual box will contain only one word, and since I was typing my numbers instead of using the numeral, I typed “two”. Acceptable responses were “2-3”, “2 to 3”, and “two to three”. First, to me each of those responses contain multiple words. Second, to me the phrase “two or more” means the same thing as “two to three or more”?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Question 32 – Regarding the continuation of the radius of a loop during the snap in an avalanche, I put that the model should maintain the “track” of the loop. Acceptable responses are “circularity” or “radius”. Track seems to mean the same thing to me.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Matt</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>