Oh I forgot to mention that if you really want to have fun....Have
Daryl drive your golf cart for hand launch golf....Picture launching
the glider, leveling off at the top of launch, looking back at the
place where your cart and driver were just 2 seconds ago and hear him
(driver) yell, hurry up these things aren't very fast.....flying,
running and jumping into the moving golf cart with Daryl laughing at
you....hard!
Can't wait to do it again.
MS
At 01:41 PM 5/3/2006, Mike Smith wrote:
Lets not all miss the big point here. There is something for
everybody at the NATS. For those who wish to compete, you will get
great competition, and a fair contest. For those who are there to
fly for fun....man I got to tell you there is fun at every turn. I
don't care so much about the competition that it gets anywhere hear
ruining the fun for me. I am sure that goes for a majority of the
people that attend. The fact is the NATS is a blast. I know I had
one in '04. Oh sure, I won, but it didn't matter. Laughing at
Bruce's jokes, partying with Jack and Karen, eating great BBQ with
JB and everybody else who's names I have forgotten, oh and lets not
forget the adventure of the ride with DP half way across the country
in the Lancair. Damn great time.
Moonsay, here I come.
Mike Smith
At 12:34 PM 5/3/2006, Harry DeBoer wrote:
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!
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>Interesting numbers from the LSF-NATS Entry pages.
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>Unlimited entries = 62
>
>RES entries = 52
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>2M entries = 40 (65% of UNL, 77% of RES)
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