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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If it is not a problem I would like a look at the
Excel sheets as well...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>John Ferrell <BR><A
href="http://DixieNC.US">http://DixieNC.US</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rickwallace45@hotmail.com
href="mailto:rickwallace45@hotmail.com">rick wallace</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:39
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Pattern Help -with links
(long)</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Earl –
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Concur – score
analysis helps – and so does a coach, even one who isn’t a pilot.
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’ve done a similar
thing to Gordon’s sheet – screen shot at <A
href="http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/rixplanes/scoring_analysis__coaching_aids.htm">http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/rixplanes/scoring_analysis__coaching_aids.htm</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And I’ll be happy to
send the actual Excel sheet to anyone who wants it – it’s set up for Advanced,
but the Masters one will be available soon. (be forewarned -It has a macro in
it that computes cell fill color based on score – that might alert some
computer protection systems) </SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It’s an Excel sheet
intended to show score trends over the course of a season, and to highlight
the high-K maneuvers… </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
Once the user enters the scores for each judge and round, there’s a
macro that colors the cells to show scores – e.g, 10 = green, 8= light blue, 5
= RED, 0 = really ugly purple (like a bruise) </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
Higher K maneuvers are set to display in bold, italic or both,
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
The sheet computes each raw round score is computed, and there’s a place for
the pilot to enter normalized score and placement in class for the
round.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
There’s also a trend analysis part at the bottom tha compares mean score for
each maneuver across the contests flown- colored of course to show improvement
(or plateau or .. area for improvement. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Use is pretty easy –
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
Enter the scores for each round – takes about 30 min after the
contest</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
Run to macro to set the cell colors based on scores. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
Make up the practice plan for the coming week to eliminate the purple, red,
orange, yellow areas and get scores into the blue / green zone.
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The sheet really does
highlight areas for improvement over a single contest, and does so even more
as the season progresses. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The other example at
the link above is a ‘coaching page for non-pilot coaches’ – like my wife.
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Color diagrams
(powerpoint of course) , correct geometries, arrows showing entry / exit –
even names! And a set for each flight direction. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wife goes to the
field w/ me, marks on the drawings what / where the errors are, and we use
them as a basis for post-flight discussions. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sportsman,
Intermediate, Advanced diagrams in pdf format are available on the Dq1
website, <A
href="http://ocmrc.us/NSRCAD1/home.htm">http://ocmrc.us/NSRCAD1/home.htm</A>
or I can provide powerpoint files to any who want them. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Masters is about
done—maybe next week for the ppts.) </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sorry, guys, the
coach isn’t available for anything except coaching … and good natured banter
at D1 contests… </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hope this helps.
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-Rick
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B>
discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Gordon Anderson<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Friday, January 14,
2005</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">8:43
PM</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> discussion@nsrca.org<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: Pattern
Help</SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=blue size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Earl,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=blue size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Regarding
the calculation of statistics from the scoring of a contest; I have attached a
final score sheet from my scoring program used in most of the D8 pattern
contests last season. This program is a series of excel spreadsheets and
macros. I will give this to anyone interested but you will need Microsoft
Excel to use this program. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=blue size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">I calculate
a number of statistics and plot score distribution data that I find very
useful in focusing my practice. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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color=blue size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">--Gordon
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Earl Haury<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, January 14, 2005 10:35
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Discussion List,
NSRCA<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Pattern
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Several have mentioned the lack of
help in the form of coaches, competent observers, etc. which could help them
improve their flying skills. This is probably more common than not,
and makes it difficult for each of us to improve (even the FAI guys).
I've found a couple of ways around this that some might find useful.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The first is score analysis.
Simply input raw scores (each maneuver / each judge) into a spreadsheet. Even
a 4 round contest with 2 judges / flight will yield 8 scores / maneuver.
Average each maneuver's score set and calculate the standard deviation. This
provides a feel for how well any given maneuver was flown and a feel for
consistency - the lower the std dev the better. This info lets one see what
needs improvement the most and, over several contests, note
progress.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Of course score analysis doesn't
indicate just what the problem is. There have been many good suggestions
regarding seeking that input from fellow competitors, interested observers,
etc. Another method exists that can provide valuable
info.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">That method is a datalogger. I've
recently been using the latest USB Datalogger to look at in flight
parameters. <A
href="http://www.eagletreesystems.com/Plane/plane.html">http://www.eagletreesystems.com/Plane/plane.html</A>
This newest version provides a useable graphics display of flight parameters
(even more useful if the data are evaluated in a spreadsheet) - your choice as
to just what to look at. I typically log altitude, airspeed, and aileron
inputs. </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The altitude inputs allow
observation of entry / exit altitudes, altitude changes in level flight,
diameter (height) of loops, cross over points, altitude loss / gain during
spin entry, altitude loss / gain during rolls, etc. All basic stuff that's
important to get right for good scores. Speed data provide clues as to
where too much / little power is used and whether a prop works well or not.
The aileron inputs can be superimposed on the altitude data to determine roll
position on vertical lines. While not all pattern parameters lend them selves
to analysis with this technology, a good deal can be learned with
it.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">While recently evaluating
engine / prop combinations (very top secret), I noted something that looks
useful regarding snaps. During both up and downline snaps the speed signal
drops to zero for a period of time roughly equivalent to snap duration. It
appears that possibly airflow separation from the wing includes the pitot
tube. Upline snaps also show a marked decline in ascent rate during the
snap. </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Recent snap discussions have made
me curious, so I've decided to do some snap analysis with a G-force
sensor connected to the logger. I've ordered the sensor and plan to
take a good look at "real" snaps and barrel rolls. What to bet that the G
loads spike quickly then drop dramatically during snaps, but
increase throughout the barrel rolls? I'll present this work as
a K-Factor article when finished, if anyone wants data sooner,
a datalogger costs the same as a couple of
servos.</SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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