The Pattern Chat Room part 1 -- Claude MacKrill

THE PATTERN CHAT ROOM.........
FOOD FOR THOUGHT....Monday, 04 April 2005

The reason for starting this sheet is to keep us pattern pilots taking. As pattern pilots we are doomed to a lonely existence, people who do not fly pattern think we need to be institutionalized, sometimes I think so myself, but when you get down to the nitty gritty of enjoying flying, the pattern always has a challenge even when you are at the top,.......... Andre & friends cannot relax for a moment, as the lead can easily be taken by someone else, as well as in the Sportsman class, in the Western Cape, Peter Kapp has been doing some sterling work at his Club & around the Cape encouraging Pattern, Cape Radio Flyers has now got 3 pattern flyers, & in our Club we have pilots in all the divisions,....But still one needs to swap ideas, or help with problems that we sometimes encounter, some problems may seem to be impossible but when you mention it to fellow flyer that looks at the problem from a different angle, solutions are soon found....So I would like to set up this forum for those who are not lucky enough to have fellow pattern pilots in their club......Any problems be it about flying, Competitions, Judging......just as a matter of interest this paper is circulated to a few judges, so if you want to ask the judges about 'stuff' e-mail me & I will past the matter on to them.....they will answer & if they don't have the right answers we will stop their bribes at the next comp......

So Now you have a forum that u can use to ask questions.....Just one thing...NO & I Mean NO Political Agendas......& NO personal attacks on anybody...Except Judges......& Helicopter pilots.....& Politicians .... & Dealers ( they are the same as drug dealers, as they sell OUR Drugs........ except that our drug dealers are more expensive & Live in mansions & Have X Type Cars & Holliday homes & Yachts ...&full size planes...I am so jealous)

Now I am busy putting together a 'moan' that has been close to my heart for a long time, the distance of the flight line from the judges, according to the book it must be 150 meters, but generally most flyers fly way of in the distance and are judged in my opinion not as harshly as a flyer that flies to close, but when flying further away you have a distinct advantage in that your flight line becomes much longer & especially for Rolling maneuvers ......................you some gain some serious advantage, but if you fly to close the judges hammers you & you have the disadvantage of having a rather short flight line, now my suggestion is than we have 2 distance markers for at serious comps, i.e. in fly-offs for the masters (i.e. the top 4) we have flagmen sitting at the 150 meter mark as well as on the 200 meter mark, if the pilot flies further than 200 meters from the judges he must be penalized heavily as he now has a serious advantage in that his flight line is very long & setting up rolling maneuvers is a lot easier......I'm not abdicating a zero score but a serious downgrade in the region of 4 to 5 points......if the flyer is to close he will be docked similarly but also has the disadvantage of a short flight line.....Double whammy.........
I have asked Louw Smit to work out the difference in the flight line lengths for every 10 meters you fly away from the 150 meter marker.......so u will see that flying further than 200 meters should be judged as completely out of the box & score zero........I will send off those calculations as soon as I receive them from Louw....I could not do the calculations myself as I did no trigs in Standard 3
P.S........I did pass Standard 3 Maths on the higher grade.....

IF YOU HAVE ANYTING ON YOUR MIND...........PLEASE LET ME KNOW & I WILL DO MY BFST TO GET IT OUT TO ALL........
REGARDS
CLAUDE........FROM THE MOST BEUTIFULL CITY IN THE WORLD.......ALL THE VAALIES HAVE ARE MOST BEUTIFULL MINE DUMPS...& MONEY...HA. HA....