Yeah, 3 is out and 1.5 is close. So in static the color / marking judge dings you and his excuse is "this anti-glare strip should be dark blue, not black" and he dings you a point or 2. Your trip is wasted because some guy doesn't see it right, and has no knowledge that all anti glare strips are black. Now in the first flight one judge sitting in a chair thinks the figure 8 might have been low at one end, and the other doesn't know what happened because he wasn't looking so they converse and come up with a score - now instead of losing 2 points from one you lose 2 from both.

If you now could protest the static - a group preferably looks at you color sheet and agree it's black. It's "Daves a nice guy, he just made a mistake" - but you wouldn't be burned from somebody who didn't know what was going on. With the flight judges spread out and not allowed to have a conference during the flight, it's better judging and it is also safer, because they are paying attention.

I bring that up, because I see on another site that Sam Wright also caught this group consensus flight judging and the opinion that many of these guys have never been to a museum. It seems from the comments I saw from him, that F. Tiano was a little more on top of these issues in the last long period of time.

Dennis