[NSRCA-dist1] Masters sequence for 2018-2019

[JOE LACHOWSKI]

Did they get rid of the half loop with integrated half roll?
I still think there is too much knife edge flight in the sequence even 
with the golf ball changed. It then becomes who can trim his airplane 
the best instead of fly the best. Also, a disadvantage to still using 
viable older designs.
 
The loop with full roll is tolerable after having flown it some this 
fall.
 
I also found the sequence to have too many vertical neck straining 
maneuvers.
 
The back to back snaps was kind of stupid. Don't care for upline or 
downline snaps. I'd sooner do the Cuban 8 with two snap rolls.
 
I suspect that battery consumption is higher, but I can't tell without 
having the final sequence to deal with to determine that.
 
The sequence also presented some judging difficulties.
 
Will see. I am probably going to fly Advanced with my physical health 
condition as it stands right now.
Joe Lachowski

 
 
 
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Sal Piu via NSRCA-dist1 wrote:
 
 

     D1
         folks,



              I usually don’t comment about Board of Director’s (BoD)
         meetings as the official meeting notes are always published: I
         thought folks should know what transpired to end up with the
         final Masters 2018-2019 sequence. 
         As everyone knows, there was a very large contention with
         the proposed Masters sequence earlier this year that 
essentially
         revolved around some maneuvers being deemed excessively
         challenging by some pilots, as well as the overall sequence not
         adhering to the sequence committee guidelines established
         several years ago. 
         The BoD made recommendations to essentially get the
         proposed sequence back within guidelines as well as address the
         difficulty aspect. 
         The sequence committee responded with a counter-proposal.
         The BoD meeting in October 2017 discussed the counter-proposal
         and made decisions based on districts’ preferences and survey
         results. 
         Two particular maneuvers were contentious even among the
         BoD members during that meeting. 
         The golf-ball maneuver was decided by a margin of only 1
         vote in favor of keeping it simple with half rolls (the
         knife-edge ¾ loop is reduced to a simple wings-level loop).  
         The second contentious maneuver was the loop with the top
         180 half containing either an integrated roll or a 4-point 
roll. 
         The Board originally recommended to change this maneuver
         to include a 4-point roll because, in theory, that should be
         easier to do than an integrated roll across the same area.
         Several folks stated at the board meeting that they tried 
flying
         both versions of this maneuver multiple times: all-that-did
         discovered the version with the 4-point roll was actually more
         difficult to fly than the integrated roll. Hence, the board
         voted to go with the simpler integrated roll version. 
         I believe the final, BoD-endorsed Masters sequence
         complies with existing sequence committee guidelines in
         generating new sequences.








Sal
   _______________________________________________

NSRCA-dist1 mailing list

NSRCA-dist1 at lists.nsrca.org

http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-dist1 
<http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-dist1>


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nsrca.org/pipermail/nsrca-dist1/attachments/20171013/04e360fd/attachment.html>