Originally Posted by
Smooth Pilot
I cannot tell you how often judges have told me my scores would increase if I left the sticks alone and only use them when they are needed.
With a bit of luck you might get told this a bit less often.
The new FAI sporting code for F3A (
) is out and they're reducing the weighting for gracefulness and smoothness and increasing the weighting for geometric accuracy section (5B.4).
But if you're telegraphing minor mistakes to the judges by immediately and blatantly correcting them, then still expect to get hit hard...
I'm expecting that big, floaty, F3P inspired designs will benefit from this weighting change....