Our thanks go to LARCS for the use of their field to hold our Judges training day organised by Alan Simmonds. Attendees: Bob Ailles, Peter Brett, Ashley Hoyland. Pilots: Richard Christopher, Matt Hoyland, Andy Prime, Alan Simmonds, Steve Underwood. A warm day with varying wind blowing in and giving a challenging enough environment to make the day interesting. The theme set for the day was to fly closer in to the 150 metre mark. Pilots comments from the forum: What a blast, really enjoyed today. Perfect weather, perfect company, perfect day. Alan, take a bow mate, you've really made the difference to my day's flying today. For those that missed it, you lucked out! And what 150 metres looks like. ...... thank you Alan, Bob and Peter for giving up your time to make the day very worthwhile. A shame that more pilots didn't turn out to support the initiative. Everybody worked well together to find improvement points and the experience of maintaining a 150m depth was challenging and enjoyable. ....... big Thank you to Bob & Pete and Alan for there time given, most enjoyable day and a challenge as richard posted earlier , great weather and a lovely flying site, thank you all. Comments from our Chief Judge: What were we trying to achieve with this training day? First of all we tried to get the pilots to fly a constant depth of 150-160 metres,the pilots that attended were Richard Christopher. Matt Hoyland, Steve Underwood, Andy Prime and Alan Simmonds who doubled up as a judge. I have to thank Andy for his stirling work for standing at the 150 metre marker for the best part of the day, I think this affected his flying because he spent most of the time holding his left arm up in the air highlighting the fact that the pilots were flying out of the box. By mid afternoon all pilots went to the 150 marker to watch others fly and was suprised by the shape of the manoeuvres flown by each pilot. All pilots were suprised how close 150 metres was, at first they were uncomfortable with this distance but gradually got accustomed to it and reduced the size of the manoeuvres. We then moved onto looking at the shape of some of the manoeuvres to give the pilots some feed back. I think as judges Peter Brett and Alan Simmonds were also suprised how close 150 metres was. I would like to thank Alan Simmonds and the Larks Club for the use of the site, and thank the weather man for getting it right for the day. The downside of the day for the association was the fact that no new pilot judges attended, I hope we can get a few at comp,s this year, Unfortunately I will not be judging at the First Centralised at Leicester due to the fact that I will be attending the CIAM Meeting in Lausanne. At this meeting we will be voting on the P13, F13, P15 and F15. There are also two new schedules called A13 and A15, these are the same as the P13 and P15 but with less complicated parts in some manoeuvres. These are the schedules that we hope to use next year as the Master schedule. This is something I have been involved with, with Michael Ramel