If you have an interest in having the AMA recognize scale soaring as a significant movement in R/C modeling, read this proposal. (See link below) We have been given unprecidented permission to run this event as a provisional event NEXT JULY Saturday 22 2000. We can do this because of the great cooperation of Alden Shipp (event director for the LSF NATS 1999), Steve Kaluf (AMA Technical Director), and others in these organizations. The venue will be fantastic. Two intertsecting paved runways, plus acres of grass for those not liking black top. We have a whole day to run the event plus some time Friday afternoon for practice flying. The official proposal before the AMA needs your support. This is a three year process. The proposal is now open to comments and support. Please call or write your district scale contest board member and register your support for this important opportunity to bring the AMA event into the 21rst Century. The hitch is that this "soaring" event is governed by the SCALE CONTEST board, not the Soaring Contest board, as it is classified as a scale event. I will post their addresses on the linked page. In order to make complete sense of the proposal change, you may need to see the entire existing set of rules for Sport Scale 517. It is listed in the blue rule book or available online at The AMA Web Site: The AMA has not published the rules change proposal because of its length, nor is it on their web site yet. Please contact your or any of the Contest board members if you support our efforts. The proposal is a group effort. Pete George CD, Bob Harold CD NATs Sport scale 517, and I, have combined efforts to make this a fair proposal. We had a public disscusion, as many of you may have seen, on Robin Lehman's message board last year. (Still available on line) If it matters to you, please get involved by registering your support. If we can unite behind one proposal then it stands a very good chance of passing. The proposal has now moved to the cross proposal phase. There will be adjustments to this proposal as we move along. We don't anticipate any major changes. The winch launch weight limit will probably be increased, as the AMA has suggested their winches will launch heavier than 25 pound sailplanes. We have not recieved an upward limit yet. John Derstine,Pete George, Bob Harold E-mail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scale Soaring: http://www.Geocities.com/~scalesoar RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
