I like this thread. Can't believe I got some big guns involved here. To me it's quite an interesting subject. You guys that are doing the judging on unlimited there are so many snaps in a single maneuver that I think it must be getting hard to keep up. To concentrate on every single one I think is a task of its own specialy if they are one after another.
I think it is true like the Navy guy said. You ask lots of people about the correct way of doing snaps and a lot of them will tell you something different. So after all this discussion here am I doing it all wrong?... releasing rudder prior to stop? Which would mean I'm not completing autorotation. This part really baffles me[&:]. And how could the judge see this anyway? It only takes less than split of a second. I don't really want to cheat but that's the way I taught myself and also from watching other guys. So if it's incorrect I want to know how to do it properly then.
Mike, could you please let us know which magazine can we find your article about snaps?... so I can buy at least 3 copies