I think that a lot of nitpicking can be avoided by making the format up as two separate competitions. Static and Flying. Do we really need an overall FLYING scale model champion who got there mainly on his static score?I have judged a regional event, and the type of flying left me cold. Five minute cross-country circuits to do a 5sec. fly by!Very boring for judges and spectators. Binoculars would have helped!Pilots who enter an aerobatic capable model and choose to do 'rate one' turns and easy 'straight and level stuff'?As a judge I would have to give 10 to a Mustang on an overshoot procedure as opposed to an 8 or 9 to a faulty slow roll by another Mustang. Very unsatisfactory.There should be NO unjudged 'passes'. All flying should be judged(if it is close enough to see?)It seems tht 90% of the flight time is spent in getting into position for the other 10% of the flying which is judged!I am not surprised that judges have been seen talking to each other while the pilot takes his model on sight seeing trip round the countryside! I guess that is why we have to have so many flight-lines operating at the same time, so that the event can be completed in the two or three days it takes to run one of these things.It is definitely NOT a Show, and would make sponsors hard to find I should think.I can understand some contestants asking fo a free style option. It needs something!