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Offline Clancy Arnold

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Judging Scale models
« on: September 02, 2009, 07:24:57 AM »
I have heard or read many comments about how judges score Scale models.

The only one I go by is in the Rule Book:

Control Line Scale Flight Judging Guide, Section 4, Judging the Flight.  "Judges should assume that a contestant is going to perform a perfect maneuver/scale operation and should, therefore, start with a grade of 10 points.  Any faults that are observed should be the cause of points deducted."

I apply this same philosophy to Static Judging.

I remember the first time I had my C-7A Caribou Static Judged at the 1985 NATS.
I was worried about how the judges would score it with it's flat finish on a very ugly airplane.  I could hear the judges commenting about the Color and Markings. 

One judge commented that he could see nothing wrong with it and the other judges agreed.  It received a perfect score on Color and Markings. 

At the NATS this year I gave one perfect score.  If John Brodak could "bottle" or "box up" the Takeoff and Climb out that he performed on his last flight in Control Line Sport Scale, he could sell it.

It was as the Judging Guide describes a Take Off and Climb Out.  He took over a lap to get it off the ground and an additional lap to smoothly get it to 5 feet altitude.

Clancy
Clancy Arnold
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