<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I don’t think Proposal 18-7 actually fixes a problem. If we assume that the top three seeded pilots determine the level of competition within a group as the proposal states, then the proposal does change the most disadvantaged group (the groups seeing the most difficult level of competition) from A to C. But it also changes the most advantaged group from D to B. The net effect is that it skews the scores higher for A and B and we’ve just moved the “problem” from one group to another. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
<div class="">Jeff</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:jeff@hillanalysis.com" class="">jeff@hillanalysis.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><i class="">True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that your high school class is running the country. </i></div><div class="">Kurt Vonnegut</div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 23, 2017, at 9:14 PM, Jerry Budd via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" class="">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was recently appointed Chairman of the NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee and tasked with creating an ad-hoc committee to review and comment on the proposals that have been formally submitted to the AMA RC Aerobatics Contest Board. John Fuqua and Robert Green have generously agreed to join me on the NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee. Their email addresses are listed below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:johnfuqua@embarqmail.com" class="">johnfuqua@embarqmail.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:rgreen24@hotmail.com" class="">rgreen24@hotmail.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are currently 7 proposals under review; they can be found at: <a href="http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/ruleproposals/rcaero.aspx" class="">http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/ruleproposals/rcaero.aspx</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a March 15th submittal deadline for new proposals to AMA so there isn’t sufficient time to conduct a NSRCA member survey and analyze the data. There is time for interested members to read the proposals and share their thoughts with the Committee members directly via email, or indirectly on this discussion list. Either way I would request that you provide your comments soon as the Committee will need a few days to summarize its thoughts before submitting them to the AMA RC Aerobatics Contest Board.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One point that I want to emphasize is that the NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee is <u class="">not</u> tasked with taking suggestions for rules proposals from the general NSRCA Membership and creating new proposals for submittal to AMA based on that input. The Committee's tasking is to:</div><div class=""><div class=""><ol class=""><li class="">Review proposals that have been submitted to AMA.</li><li class="">Receive input from the general NSRCA membership on the submitted proposals.</li><li class="">Provide comment/suggestions to the RC Aerobatics Contest Board as the official voice of NSRCA.</li></ol></div></div><div class="">If you are interested in submitting a proposal to AMA, instructions may be found here: <a href="http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/ruleproposals.aspx#2018-2019" class="">http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/ruleproposals.aspx#2018-2019</a>. However, I would recommend that you consider contacting your District’s representative on the AMA RC Aerobatics Contest Board in advance of submitting the proposal so you can benefit from their thoughts and perspective. I would also politely request that you send me a copy of your proposal so the NSRCA Rules Proposal Committee can study it and be able to provide the Contest Board with timely input on the proposal. As I mentioned earlier, AMA’s deadline for new proposal submittals is March 15th, so please don’t delay!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course, everyone who is an AMA member has the option to send their inputs directly to the RC Aerobatics Contest Board. If you are interested in doing so, here is the contact info for the AMA RC Aerobatics Contest Board <a href="http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/cbmembers.aspx" class="">http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/cbmembers.aspx</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thx, Jerry</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:jerry@buddengineering.com" class="">jerry@buddengineering.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" class="">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a><br class="">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>