That's not what I heard from the editor of the mag. I heard that the AMA
received numerous letters from members that were tired of seeing an entire
issue about competition. There is a similar issue with members not liking
the AMA facilities and grounds being used for an entire month for
competition which they supposedly received letters about. So a number of
days was cut from Nats this year.
So in one year we almost lost a day at Nats, but shifted to starting on
Friday to keep all the dates and we have lost the magazine coverage for the
Nats.
It seems a growing number of modelers are not interested in contest flying.
I think that's unfortunate because that's my favorite part about
soaring. And the Nats issue was my favorite issue for the entire year, now
it's just a Christmas catalog of advertisements.
At 08:32 PM 10/30/2005, ROBERT M GELLART wrote:
Just for the record,
from what I know, it was the Model Aviation staff that generated this idea,
not AMA staff.
Jim
Downers Grove, IL
Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR
AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net
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