Hi Cal and Everyone: It would appear that the Nat's is trying to be all things to all flyers. Looking back on past Nat's with 2 Meter, Standard(100") Unlimited and Scale it was a more relaxed time. Now we are trying to get F3B, F3J, Hand Launch, Cross Country, Scale, 2 Meter, Unlimited, RES and Nostalgia into the schedule. Take a look at this for a schedule. First Class of AMA TD. Sunday and Monday 2 Meter. Second Class TD. Tuesday and Wednesday Unlimited. Third Class.TD. Thursday and Friday RES with Friday shared with Nostalgia. Friday evening for the Banquet. Specialty events in the days before and after AMA TD. This would give SIX days of Thermal Duration Flying with diversified types of Sailplanes testing all of our skills. My $0.02 worth. EW. Ed Whyte Whyte Wings 7207 Cornerstone Drive Caledonia, MI 49316-7879 616 698 8668 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cal Posthuma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <soaring@airage.com>; "James V. Bacus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] One full day of RES
Two Meter does not need to drop a day. Nostalgia will die or co-exist with F3B or HL, probably HL. Two Meter is very different from RES but both contribute to new aircraft that provide a starting place for the new fliers. When I wrote the first rules to start the RES class at the Nats the concept was to cause new planes to be made for the class so new flyers have choices. To diminish Two Meter as a result is back stepping. Dan Pruss award is up to SOAR. If they want to advance RES to competition level they write the rules. AMA sets Hi Johnson and Lee Renaud awards and they should remain as they are. Cal Posthuma LSF VV Personal Web Page http://www.altelco.net/~calplsf/index.html Home of Solenoid LED's 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
