[NSRCA-dist1] Masters sequence for 2018-2019

[Sal Piu]

I just noticed I made a minor error in my last statement below regarding 
the vote on the golf ball maneuver.  The vote was actually a perfect tie 
vote.  President Joe Walker decided to allow the survey results to be 
the tie-breaker.  The golf ball maneuver was the survey's most 
contentious maneuver, indicating the knife-edge loop should be 
simplified to a normal wings-level loop (with 1/2 rolls instead of 
1/4-type rolls). So, that's how we selected the final version of the 
golf ball maneuver.

Sal


On 10/12/2017 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
>
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