To all SA NATS participants, the initial pilot’s meeting will be held Sunday July 4Th at 6:00PM on site 3. I encourage everyone to attend however it is not mandatory. Banquet tickets will be for sale at this meeting.
Below is a list of pertinent information:
• Unlimited and Advanced will use site 3 (show center) two flight lines. (Subject to change)
• Intermediate and Sportsman will use site 4 (rear site) two flight lines. (Subject to change)
• Flight order established at the 8:00AM Monday morning pilot briefing.
• Pilot briefing held on the site to which you are assigned.
• Wheels up immediately after pilot briefing.
• Scores will be posted after each round. (Thursday rounds will be held until finalist are announced)
• No UNKNOWNS for Monday July 5Th (we will fly as many known rounds as possible).
• Banquet tickets available for purchase (See score runners, Cheryl and Tina).
• We will not be enforcing Scale Aerobatics General Rule 5 Sound Limits (see below for sound enforcement rules). All other rules apply!
• Concessions will be on site (arranged by AMA).
• It will be hot so please stay hydrated.
• Tuesday’s unknown will be handed out at end of day Monday pilot’s briefing and flight order will be established.
• After hours, please feel free to mingle throughout the campus and get to know your fellow pilots.
• Please obey all traffic signs while on AMA property.
• The rest we will play by ear.
Scoring;
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday scores will follow SA Rules and Regulations. See General Rule 15. Determining Placement (also see Contest Guide 4 Appendix A “Drop Table”)
Thursday final’s pilots will be flying one round of knowns and TWO unknowns.
Weighting for finals will be 33% carrying in from first three days, 33% known round, and 33% unknowns
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Results:
• Highest known finals sequence normalized.
• Highest unknown finals sequence normalized.
• Normalized score from preliminary rounds.
Summary;
The sequence committee has worked very hard to supply us with sixteen freshly written unknowns. Please be sure to thank our sequence committee for their commitment to our sport. Monday we will fly as many known rounds as possible to try and stay ahead of Mother Nature. Unknowns will be handed out at the pilots briefing at the end of day Monday and Tuesday. Finalist will be announced and the final two unknowns will be handed out at the end of the banquet (held at the Horizon Center Wednesday night) and flight order will be established.
Banquet
• Tickets cost TBA. (6/23)
• 6PM to 7PM serving cocktails (mingling encouraged)
• 6:45PM Short introductions by Kent Porter (event director)
• 7PM Buffet Dinner starts serving
• 7:45PM Don Hamilton takes the floor to share some exciting news.
• 8:45PM Announcement of finalist and hand out final unknowns
• 9:30PM Closing remarks / Kent Porter
• Cash bar closes @ 11:30PM
• We have to be out of the center by 11:59PM
• Please be sure to obey the no smoking policy while in the Horizon Center.
SOUND ENFORCEMENT RULES;
Listed below are the purposed 2011 AMA Scale Aerobatics Sound Rules which will govern the 2010 Scale Aerobatics NATS:
5.4. In-Flight Judging Criteria for Known and Unknown Sequences
Judges will evaluate each individual sequence flown in its entirety for overall sound presentation. Each judged Known and Unknown sequence, shall have one “figure” added to the end of the score sheet after individually judged maneuvers. This figure shall be known as the Sound Score. The Sound Score will have a K value dependent on the class flown. Individual class K values are:
- Unlimited 15 K
- Advanced 12K
- Intermediate 9K
- Sportsman 6K
- Basic 3K.
The sound score will be scored on a scale of 10 to 0 with 10 denoting “Very Quiet” and the low end of the scale toward zero denoting “Very noisy”. Whole points will be used for scoring. This sound score will then be multiplied by the K value for the individual class and included in the total flight score for the sequence. Note that each judge’s score is independent of the other(s) and no conferencing on the sound score is required.
If a pilot receives a sound score of three (3) or less for the same sequence from two or more judges, the pilot will be notified of the problem and will be requested by the Contest Director prior to the next round to adjust or modify the aircraft in order to reduce the sound level. If that pilot, after notification, again receives a sound score of three (3) or less for the same sequence from two or more judges, that pilot will be disqualified from further competition at that contest.
Note: I ask all pilots that are on site Sunday to please make arrangements to ground sound test your planes. This is for data collection only. Thank you for your participation in this task.
Event Director
Kent Porter
SA NATS.