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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I like to paint mine a nice gray
color.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Keith</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=gfowler@raytheon.com href="mailto:gfowler@raytheon.com">Gray E
Fowler</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> Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:31
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Put equity back into snap
judging</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Eric said....</FONT>
<BR><BR><BR><FONT size=3><BR>1. If you can't guarantee to judge it correctly
take it out of AMA <BR>schedules. It is grossly unfair to penalize pilots this
way.</FONT> <BR><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Good point, but if we
take it out, then me as an Advanced flyer will never have the chance to learn
how to "Cheat" a snap as good as the FAI guys do. You know....that little no
elevator flip that they do to keep the heading correct and never get a zero
cuz they be "insert big name here". </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>If the top FAI guys faced some of the critical snap judging that most
of us ocassionally do, and know one knew their name, they too would remove it
or change the criteria ....according to me.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>In defense of the individual FAI flyers....the ones I
know are pretty cool guys...just gotta play the game. As the name recognition
goes up, it seems the weenier the snap gets......in other words, the so called
"regular" FAI guy faces a huge disadvantage when faced with the judging
criteria/disparity Eric mentioned plus facing name recognition. AND as
usual....I could be wrong.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2><B>Tonight, I am going to paint my prop all pretty colors. Can anyone
tell me what colors and designs score the best?</B></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2><BR><BR><BR>Gray Fowler<BR>Principal Chemical
Engineer<BR>Composites Engineering</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>