Jim,
This is a
great idea!
Count me
in.
Thanks
Mike
Verzuh
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From: Jim Monaco
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005
5:27 PM
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Subject: [RCSE] Challenge the US
F3J Team at the SWC!!!
As
acting team manager for the US F3J team I am working on novel ideas for
providing challenging practice sessions for the team. One idea I am
kicking around is to sponsor an informal F3J competition on the Thursday prior
to the SWC. While Friday would be logistically better we would severely
interfere with frequencies and real estate for those coming in to practice just
for the SWC on Friday. Monday is out since the field is not rented for that day
and there are no known venues in the Phoenix
area that we could use.
I am
considering bringing a couple of club winches to the event and while the US
Team will be practicing real F3J launches, we could also have pilots launching
off the winches at the same time. We could argue til the cows come home
whether the winches are better or worse and give someone an
advantage/disadvantage but FOCUS!!! This is an informal fun event it just
does not matter. If you have F3J equipment, bring it and find some towers
and have at it. Well even supply F3J equipment to a few groups if you
can get towers and want to give F3J a try. If you dont have equipment
but want to give F3J a try, you can use the winches. Ill take the
responsibility of grouping pilots into teams, remember there is no team score,
teams are just arrangements for working together (calling, towing, etc).
Ill be bringing the sound system we used at the Team Selections, so well have
the real thing.
I need
to gauge if this is realistic and if there are enough interested pilots to
participate. If you think you would like to participate on Thursday,
please send me an email and indicate if you want to use the winches or hand tow
and if hand tow, whether you need equipment.
Prizes
(if any) are to be determined remember this is a low budget operation J
Thanks
- Jim
