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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>I don’t
see this as an issue of being smart enough or anything else – it’s simply
my understanding that the purpose of the caller is to support the pilot. As
such, he should work with the pilot and give the pilot the level of support he
needs. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>The caller’s job is
not to talk to the judges. He’s there to assist the pilot. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>When I’m flying I
personally find it distracting for my caller to be required to speak loudly
enough for people 6-10 feet behind him to hear. I know that when I’m in
the box I value most everything my caller says, and quite a lot of it is NOT stuff
I’d want the judges to hear – since the rules call for judging to
be a visual assessment of the plane’s course agains a standard of
perfection and nothing else (well, maybe subjective judgement as to the noise
level of the plane in flight…) </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>I’m quite willing
to (continue to) spend time scribing / assisting other judges if that’s
what it takes to keep the caller as a pilot’s asset as opposed to a show
announcer. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>That said, can we agree
to either take it as it comes, or submit a rules proposal to fix this if
someone feels strongly enough about it all to make that much of an issue of it?
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>Thanks for listening -- </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>Rick </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;background:white'>NSRCA 2972</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white'><br>
Personally I think we are all smart enough to figure this out, without a
national rule. If we make things too difficult for the CD and judges then
no one will be willing to do the job, which is a bigger problem.
Personally I don't see expecting the caller to speak loud enough for the judges
to hear as a big issue and if you are "cute" and call a maneuver a
train wreck then it might cost you, although I suspect most judges would score
what you flew and check after the round was over. The reality is that
MOST pilots have a caller, who is calling the sequence, maneuver, by maneuver
and it is very easy to have him speak loud enough for the judges to hear and
that simple act eliminates the need to have scribes call the maneuver and
eliminates the need for scribes for most judges. We can come up with lots
of reasons that this won't work and I have had pilots refuse to call/have the
maneuver called and I dealt with it. I tried to be fair and not let this
effect my judgment, but since I view the refusal as silly, you would have to
wonder if I was successful. It's hard enough to find enough judges to
fill the chairs, why do we resist something like this that would reduce the load
on the judges and the CD and really adds no REAL load to the pilot. I may
be biased, because I have always done it this way, so I know nothing different,
but I view presenting the maneuver/sequence as what this is all about and
describing it for the judges is just part of the deal, the better you do it the
less chance there is for misunderstanding. As the pilot, with the most to
loose, I choose to take control of the situation, where it is presented.
I realize at the bigger contests, NATs, worlds, etc you (the pilot) don't have
that option and personally I view that as a disadvantage. The other side
of this is at these events you generally have more judges so a single mistake
is less of an issue.<br>
<br>
Flame suit on :-)<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
<br>
Bob</span></font></p>
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