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Old days? In the 50's, we'd cherry pick from a list of approved figures,
fly them in the order we wished, and, nearing the end, we'd say to the
judges: "anything left on the list? They would quickly scan it, and
if there were anything we wished to do that we had forgotten, they would
tell us, and we'd do it.
<br>Same list worked for all classes. The restricted classes, (Rudder Only,
Mickey Mouse) would do those figures their equipment was capable of.
<br>Made judging a lot simpler, as well as flying a lot simpler, also.
BTW: The judges (2) STOOD out by the pilot; lots of pilots equaled lots
of standing.(G)
<br>Still...........lots of fun, and 150 people at a contest wasn't unusual.
<p>Bill Glaze
<p>Patternrules@aol.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="Arial"><font size=-1> Actually in
the old days(80's) the pilot called all his own maneuvers, but that was
before the turnaround.</font></font>
<p><b><i><font face="Courier New"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Steve
Maxwell</font></font></font></i></b></blockquote>
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