Thanks,

everything I am telling is things I picked up from asking questions, talking to the judges, scribing for the higher classes and just being a pain in the butt by asking and I did not want to give you information overload, there is plenty of time. What I am letting you know is everything that took me from a 6th place out of 8 pilots on my first one in basic to 1st place out of 12 pilots in my 5th contest. That contest was tight all weekend and even my raw scores were excellent.

One thing to remember is once you get to sportsman, the thing that really kills new IMAC pilots are the unknowns. These are similar to the knowns that you can practice all you want but the unknowns you are not allowed to practice except with a stick plane, you arms and hands and NOT even on the sim.

In my previous post I added the thing a CD gave me to do that really told me just how bad my rudder control was. Though I could not see it during the contest other did. I also had a tuck I was doing on my 1/2 rolls that I did not see that was costing me 1/2 point but in a full sequence that was a 1.5 point deduction and after 6 flights that's a lot of points when you get down to it. My point is to me, everything looked great until that first time. Even all the people I normally fly with saw a big difference by the time I went to the second contest. My skills definitely improved and the cool thing was I was beating people with 35 and 40 percent Carden's and such with a measly old Comp-Arf 2.3M EXTRA.

I need to act like I'm getting some work done so I'll add more later tonight