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Thread: Elimination of Aerobatic Box
Message: RE: Elimination of Aerobatic Box
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From: Leslie Eversole <acrohead at nol.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:05:06 UTC
Steve, Patty, Dave, Doug, Daryle, and anyone else who spoke out in favor of keeping the "Box" --------AMEN. The analogies in some of these post are EXCELLENT reasons for keeping the "BOX". This "stuff" we do is fun, AND competitive! How could you possibly make this work without a box? Lets look at some senarios..... I decide to fly about a mile away from the judges. I get GROOVY scores cause I'm so far away thay cannot see some of the MAJOR deviations I'm flying! I can, because if you place ANY restrictions on how far away a pilot can be from the judging line, then you have made a "boundary"or "box". Once competitors start performing contest acro over someone's house, and they may very well, because no emphasis will be placed on which way to turn for 1/4 rolls, etc., I think the FEDS will be very interested in coming to our contests. How would you get an airspace waiver for an entire county? "...well, we shouldn't be flying anywhere near that neighborhood, but I can't guarantee it." You could have minimum altitudes for different catagories, but not maximums...(your trying to make "boundaries" or "boxes" again) I could ramble on forever but hopefully you get the idea...we cannot and should not have contests without marked boundaries. I don't understand how the Italians can up the positioning score. What is the basis for positioning if not a "Box", distances between manuvers? I don't think a SUKHOI can draw the same lines as an AEROBAT between figures!!!! Centered "close" the airport? I don't think my idea of "close" and Patty's would be the same. Let us know how it works... Our One Design Contest is next Saturday. I, along with many others, have to go to Edna and tromp through Texas mud, (which is so sticky you can't even describe it), and fight the giant mosquitoes, (they have been known to carry away small animals), and wrestle with the GIANT Mutant Jackson Co Spiders (EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas). I would love to get out of it, but it is an ESSENTIAL part of a contest! I better cut this short before someone calls me Don.(no offense Don) <hehe> Leslie Eversole Chapter 25 Houston TX