90 percent of the pilots at the Nat's will never make the Team for the USA much less try out for it, so why are we moving/removing class's from their Nat's so the few may have more practice time? I agree we should have a Team but give them the time and place to do it right and don't diminish two events while trying to make one better!
It seams to me every year about this time someone gets a bug up their butt about the way the Nat's are run and what class's should or shouldn't be allowed? Remove the entry level class's and you can be sure of the future of our HOBBY! As it is now it is difficult for some to compete against the Factory sponsored pilots, or the guy who can afford to take time off from work or family to practice, practice, practice. Sorry TK but I had to. Toss me of this forum if you want, I'm tired of the politics getting in the way of why we are here. These things are TOY AIRPLANES for pete's sake! Go out and invite a kid to fly your plane, get them involved! Two links below are things we in Michigan are doing I challenge the rest of you to do the same! http://www.rcsoaring.org/newsmgr/templates/wmss.asp?articleid=185&zoneid=1 http://www.bsagrfc.org/documents/acamporee06.pdf Harry De Boer AMA 2343 LSF 6357 -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Steifel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:52 PM To: Harry DeBoer Cc: Bill's Email; RCSE Soaring Exchange Subject: Re: [RCSE] Soaring Nats Entries There is another issue with F3X ... in the last few cycles the world were RIGHT on top of the Nats. This prevents some probable F3Xers from going for the following reasons. The Worlds are during the same week and transportation is a problem, packing is a problem. Risking the airplane during the same week is a too risky ... They would rather risk it during practice at the worlds (DARYL) . Time off from work . The problem is not only related to F3B, F3J suffers the same... but usually has more TD pilots willing to jump in. There will be more entries in F3B... This year there is the problem of getting new frequency modules for some too. Since some channels were not available to normal F3B'ers. Right now the Nats is the only F3B event in the country aside from the Team Selections... Should we just call it a day and say we won't compete in the worlds then? Becasue that's what will happen if the TS is the only comp.... The AMA has decided that if you don't have a minimum of I think 20 contestants then they won't support that event anymore. Remove the Nats and we are sure to drop F3B as a team event. Then the US will be a NO SHOW since you can't get there without recognition from the AMA. Harry DeBoer wrote: >F3B entries = 5 >oops we didn't want to go there! > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bill's Email [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:00 PM >To: RCSE Soaring Exchange >Subject: [RCSE] Soaring Nats Entries > > >Interesting numbers from the LSF-NATS Entry pages. > >Unlimited entries = 62 > >RES entries = 52 > > >2M entries = 40 (65% of UNL, 77% of RES) >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and >"unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that >subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with >MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL >are generally NOT in text format > > > > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format > > > > > -- Jeff Steifel RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format