[3dubya]

We Just had a major Comp in Australia where CD did a very good job in metering out experience to cover all classes. I fly Unlimited

Unlimited flyers judged advanced, and advanced judged unlimited, because the schedules have similar complexity & the best judges usually can fly your schedule to a reasonable level (by this I mean you can pre-empt problems usually with similar flight experience) and have also done some time in the chair to get up to those classes by going to comps and earning rankings. Then to keep experience level as high as we could but to give advanced and unlimited a break, being semi focused we acted as pencilers for the rest of the guys who judged themselves. We had time to help judge because the maneuvers were less complex with mini discussions for each manuver..

This I thought worked well, we can never forget people get tired, cold or hot in chair, as much as people are taught well, some of it will go out window when uncomfortable. You cant scrutinise objective sports to an infinite level because of this but yes a reasonable standard should be maintained.


Solution is deck chairs for Judges with shade and oscillating fans and ice cold cordial in summer, and electric sleeping bags and hot cups of coffee in winter..