<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #800080"><div aria-label="Compose body">Jim,</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">I understand your suggestion. However, there are a couple of points I'd make:</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">1) Judging is part of Pattern -- if you don't like it, then you could say everyone gets his turn in the barrel. lol Gotta have judging to have a contest.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">2) I view judging as an opportunity for <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>me</strong></span> to learn something -- especially about maneuver geometry, and mistakes to avoid.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">3) Judging is an opportunity to "coach" others after their flight. In SPA, anyway, judges often make suggestions to a pilot who did something he may not be aware of that cost him a downgrade.</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span style="color: #8b8b8b;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Phil Spelt, KCRC Emeritus</span style="font-size: 14px;"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">AMA 1294, Scientific Leader Member</span style="font-size: 14px;"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">SPA L-18, Board Member</span style="font-size: 14px;"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Oliver Springs, TN (865) 435-1476v (865) 604-0541c</span style="font-size: 14px;"></strong></em></span><br><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span style="font-size: 10px;"></span style="font-size: 11px;"></span style="font-size: 12px;"></span style="font-size: 13px;"></span style="color: #8b8b8b;"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></div style="text-align: left;"></div style="text-align: center;"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><title>NATS Participation</title><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">I as maybe others may not feel qualified to judge</span></span><span lang="en-us"> <span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">NATS level competition.</span></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">Could the reduced participation be a result in part to mand</span></span><span lang="en-us"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">a</span></span><span lang="en-us"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">tory judging</span></span><span lang="en-us"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">?</span></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">Jim</span></span></p><p dir="LTR"><br></p><br>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>