Judging

Judging is a vital part of our activities - we aim to have a minimum of four judges at each event, working with an experienced Chief Judge who will manage judging operations on the day. Some events are single-days, some last for two or even three days.

We particularly encourage all pilots and other members with judging experience to commit to being a judge or at least a judge's assistant at as many events as possible.

Who to Contact

Please consider which events you can attend to judge or assist, and contact the following judging co-ordinator to let him know your plans as early in the year as possible. You can check who is listed to judge and assist at a contest on each Contest/Event page within the Events Calendar.

General

• British Aerobatics annual Judging Seminars
• Why do we Judge?
• How does Judging work?
• British Aerobatics competition classes or levels

Topics

• The Aresti 'aerobatic diagram' system
• The CIVA Catalogue families
• The Aerobatic Performance Zone, or 'Box'
• Fundamental criteria 1 - the 'Centre of Gravity Track'
• Fundamental criteria 2 - the 'Zero Lift Axis' (three pages)
• Marking the figures - the basic Rules (two pages)
• Turns
• Rolling Turns
• Slow Rolls
• Flick or Snap Rolls
• Spins
• Loops and Eights (two pages)
• Radii in Looping Segments
• Stall Turns (two pages)
• Tail Slides
• Humpty Bumps
• Direction of Flight
• Warm Up figures
• Wing-rocks - the sequence start, end, and 'breaks'
• Preparing for the arithmetic, and making comments
• The Positioning or Framing mark
• Handling the major errors and 'Hard' Zeros
• Judging a BA power 'Club' sequence
• Judging downgrades summary
• An example Judging Sheet
• Filling-In Form-A and Form-L/R properly
• Some plain common sense
• Results processing and FPS - the FairPlay System
• International and National organisation
• Further Information - website addresses, contacts etc.

Also

On the sequences page you'll find the current "Known", "Free Known" and other useful sequence material.