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<DIV>Mark...It wasn't my intention to get another debate thread started like
this...What have I done????...LOL</DIV>
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<DIV>Larry</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:Patternrules@aol.com">Patternrules@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:36
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Judging Landing &
take-offs. (was Re: Spoilers for Pattern Planes?????)</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG> Judging has and will always will be a problem, I was at a
contest this year and had to fly the last flight while most was packing up so
no caller but one of the judges had somebody call for me that I didn't know,
after my flight he ask if I would like some pointers, of course I said sure,
he said "your loosing a lot of points because you pitch before you snap" of
course anything he said after that I just let go in one ear and out the
other.</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG> Until we reach a point where technology does the judging,
with say flight data recorder's or what ever, we will have to live with
it, we have come a long way in the judging area, when I flew in the 80's and
all judges was club judges we still had problems, maybe we are being to
critical, of course it would be good to have everyone on the same page,
probably MOST of the time the best flyer wins. I was told at a contest that no
matter what, I fly the way I read the rules, and he was right, as I have said
before contest are more than winning, it is getting together with friends you
only see every few weeks during the summer, and self improvement, as the
records show I'm mostly at the bottom of the pole as far as winning goes
but the guys at my field think I'm a great flyer and that is what pattern does
for you, it makes you work at being better. </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face="Arial Baltic" size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
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