ORIGINAL: willembad
ORIGINAL: quist
At the first 2 contests that I have flown this year there have been 33 basic pilots, that is the future of Scale Aerobatics. At both of these contests the basic pilots flew 7 known sequences. Although this was not IMAC it was SCAT, they both are scale aerobatics.
Hi,
33 pilots, 7 sequences @ ~6 min. per sequence = 23.1 hours of flying time. I averaged the time to take into account landing and take-off. How many other classes were there? Where did they fly? How many flight-lines did you run? How long was the meet?
Some people are full of ..it
Willem
P.S. Congrats on your B-day, Kyle! Stick with it
At the contest in question we flew off two flight lines. We flew a total 315 scored sequences over the course of the 2 days. We were done on Sunday at 2 pm. Flying started at 8:30 each day
Basic had 14 pilots. The reference to 33 pilots in the earlier post was to the total attendance at the first 2 JR-SCAT Series contest in 2004. As it was, Basic took an average of 1:5 minutes to fly a 2 sequence round. That is close to an average of 5 minutes per pilot.
Two things are at work here. The first is that the JR-SCAT Series has designed its sequences from the ground up to fly quickly with a minimum of wasted time in free passes and driving across the box needlessly. The second is that we work very hard to keep pilots moving. We always have the next 2 pilots staged. We launch the next pilot before the guy ahead is done (he goes deep and stays out of the way until his time to enter the box). We get the next guy up immediately in the event of a deadstick and so on.
As I keep harping on pilots at a contest, if each and every pilot at a 50 person event wastes just 30 seconds per sequences (easy to do) that will cost us nearly 2 hours lost time.
Bill Malvey
Director JR-SCAT Series