[KrisW]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Yakster
	I agree that there is always room for improvement, but with the limited number of people willing to judge, and the limited number of education resources, change is going to be a long and hard process. How about instead of writing to the IMAC, being proactive and starting that change. Start a thread here in the IMAC section, perhaps a weekly article on different aspects of judging criteria. All titled in different threads like a reference guide. Im sure getting approval to use some of what Fred has put togethor to post on here wouldnt be hard either. Its like politics in this country, dont complain about it, get up and do something about it!

Well .. then we are getting outselves into a "Rulebook argument" in most cases, an dthat can become very nasty in short order.

The best thing to do would be to have hands-on sessions, with a plane with about 1-hour of endurance, that can repeatedly flown through the same manuver, and have people practice judging it with an Expert judge telling the students what happened that was both right. . adn wrong .. during the manuver. Using the BASIC sequence would be the best starting point, since it covers most of the spectrum of basic aerobatic manuvers, and would give the simplest view of each manuver in it's purest form. Whether the pilot received 0's or 10's would be up to the "students" who could then grade their own scoring agains the Expert Judges score, and ascertain what they were. . and were not, seeing during the manuvers being watched.

This entire teaching session would involve about 15 minutes of pre-flight instruction into the manuvers being judged, and criteria for them, then have the flight session, and then the after flight debrief and critique of the students.

Doing this at 6 meets throughout a flying season, where most of the pilos in a Region wold be sure to attend at least 1-2 of them, would go a long way towards improving things, and give everyone (even the poor demo pilot) a better ability in Scale Aerobatics. . be it flying. . or judging.