Good thing it changed. There was and still is too much knife edge flight in the sequence anyway. Hopefully, I'll get around to flying it a few times before the weather gets bad. Unfortunately, I have to fly it with my worst flying plane, the BiSide. The whole thing lacks balance on elements anyway you cut it. Way too many 1/4 rolls and knife edges and the back to back maneuvers with snaps. Definitely, the worst thought out Masters sequence in years from that aspect. If I decide to fly Masters, I guess I'll have to tolerate it for two seasons.<br><br>Joe Lachowski<div style="font-family: Verdana;"><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Sal Piu via NSRCA-dist1 wrote:<div> </div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;">
<p>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. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2017 10:10 PM, Sal Piu via
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</blockquote><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 10pt;">D1 folks,<br>
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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.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>The BoD made
recommendations to essentially get the proposed sequence back
within guidelines as well as address the difficulty aspect.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>Two
particular maneuvers were contentious even among the BoD
members during that meeting.<span> </span>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).<span>
</span>The second contentious maneuver was the loop with the
top 180 half containing either an integrated roll or a 4-point
roll.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>I believe the
final, BoD-endorsed Masters sequence complies with existing
sequence committee guidelines in generating new sequences.</span>
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