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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 am at Muncie watching the IMAC folks. And guess what? Some of the guys are arguing over what is a snap. I guess snaps must be related to a universal law of nature which is not intuitively obvious to the trained observer.<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'>John<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>mike mueller<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> General pattern discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] F3A Re-certification quiz<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>C'mon Jon are you telling me that you don't like snap discusions?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> I still don't exactly know what a snap with a 2 meter pattern plane is supposed to look like. I went to the World Championships last year to see how the best of the best do a snap and I still can't say for sure that most of those guys were snapping.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> I just know what I think it looks like. I guess I'll have to assume that most people are snapping even though it looks like an axle roll with a small tail wiggle to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> I guess it's kind of what we've evolved into.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> Sorry to all in advance for the rant!!! Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Jon Lowe <<a href="mailto:jonlowe@aol.com">jonlowe@aol.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:56 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> [NSRCA-discussion] F3A Re-certification quiz</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv1049528720><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>There is a definite problem with question 33 of the subject quiz. As of today, only 23% of 22 people who have taken the quiz have gotten it correct. The problem seems to be the last portion of the question. I entered "same altitude" for the answer, and the only correct answer in the quiz is "same point" when referring to the entry and exit. The question refers to 5B.8.7 of the FAI sporting code when it told me that my answer was wrong, but nowhere in that section is "same point" stated. The code does refer to "no deviation in altitude", so I submit that my answer is correct. If only 23% are getting it right, the problem is obvious. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I also got a question wrong when I accidentally hit my mouse button twice when moving to the next question. That put blanks in the answer field of the following question. The program should be revised to not accept blank answers, and to kick you back to the question, to prevent this type of issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>But all in all, I MUCH prefer this method of certification to sitting thru long certification meetings with endless discussions of "what is a snap"! Thanks to all who put this together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=yiv1049528720apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Jon</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>_______________________________________________<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" target="_blank">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>