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<DIV>In a message dated 4/12/2004 9:21:31 PM US Eastern Standard Time, mups1953@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>What's really confusing to me is that some of the best pilots I've seen fly are the ones that are cheating the most on the snaps</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG> Mike as Tony said good for you, the more that start judging the snaps right the more everyone will have to do them right, I was at a contest last year and was told because I was pitching before the snap that I was really being downgraded, I, wish basically told him that was the way it is written in the rule book and that was the way I was going to fly it, this is copied straight from the rule book, <FONT color=#ff0000>Since the maneuver is defined as a stall maneuver<BR>(initiated by a rapid stall of the wing induced<BR>by a change in pitch attitude).</FONT> Sounds pretty straight forward to me.<BR> </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face="Arial Baltic" size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B><I>Steve Maxwell</B></I></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>