Hey Tim,

To answer your question,...not in my mind,..I look at the lines, radius or radai of a maneuvor being done, while keeping the center line in sight. Like a loop for example,...when a loop is started I can see or visually correct the loop as it's being flown by another pilot or not correct it all if its a good loop. I guess in a sense my eye balls see a loop as a loop is flown and that enables me to see vertical drift, a pinch or flat spots, etc. but I don't keep the aresti in my head,..do study them pretty hard for all the classes.

For me it's difficult to explain, because I see so much of the airspace at one time. I can focus on several poits at one time, previous and the present. Now in saying that, if the entire program is just all over the place with no regards to lines or symetery or position and flown at mach 2 from start to finish it makes it really easy to see. I think it is more difficult to judge a very polished pilot no matter what class they fly with respect to the flight program they fly,..other than the obvious oops.

I find for myself, when I fly,.. I will find additional reference points in addition to the box lines. Like a tree line, I will use that as an entry and exit reference or a reference for rolling circles or loops. That helps me alot,.....that's something Kirk G. tought me years ago,..works great for me (something I rcently had to re-learn). Our reverse cuban eight,.. I took several practice flights on friday to find my reference points at each start and end point of the 8, left box, right box. That gave me several things, if my radius was correct I hit my line and the center maneuvor,...etc,..etc. Now with the wind we had and by hitting my marks, I could adjust driving the aircraft through the symetery portion of the maneuvor (half loops) to adjust for the rage'in wind. I didn't execute it perfect everytime, but I had a reference to adjust to and from and fort the most part I was all over it.

I explained that because, I do that also for judging,...not using my marks,..lol,..but by using simple reference point available helps.

Don't know if that answers you question.

Yes,..I agree Blair was getting less and less gun shy and built up confidence in the plane based on his recent bad luck! Plus,..he was still dialing in the plane throughout the entire contest.

Bill Holsten
Team Fliton