| Preparing for the mental
arithmetic and making your comments |
| Prepare for each
flight by reading right through the sequence sheet to visualise
the key points to look for. During the sequence you will then
find it much easier to complete the arithmetic for each figure.
Experienced Judges have all sorts of different ways of
remembering the errors to arrive at the 'right' score for each
figure - preferably at the time but occasionally after the
sequence has ended. |
Here's a good method:
Say
out loud to yourself and your assistant what you see - good and
bad - as it happens. This will help you to identify the errors
you saw the pilot make, and your assistant can easily record a
sensible critique for the pilot. Say clearly how many degrees
you think that the aircraft is pitched, (positively or
negatively), rolled or yawed (left or right) in 5° steps, and by
what proportion you think that the line-lengths are too short or
too long - before or after other key elements. Whilst you are
doing this, count on your fingers the accumulated marks to
deduct from each figure. All you have to do then is take away
your running 'digital' total from ten - and there you have the
final score for each figure. |
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| There are two very good things
about this particular technique. Not only will you soon and with
remarkably little effort be weighing the pro's and con's of the
errors you see, but it is tailor-made for your assistant to keep
a good audit trail of the flight in the comments column. This is
important both for the pilot and for you later on. Sometimes it
all happens so quickly that you simply can't make up your mind
in time, so just leave grading that figure until the end of the
sequence and then you can back track, re-read your comments and
re-compose your answer, or if all else fails you'll have to
confess to a 'don't know'. If this happens, get your assistant
to annotate it as "Not Seen" in the comments column and
put an ‘A’ instead of the score, then the computer will convert
this to an average of everyone else's scores. All the best
Judges do this sometimes, so don't worry! |
| The sequence ends
with a further three wing rocks, at which point you must
consider the framing mark. |
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