NATs Participation

[Bill Glaze]

>From what I've seen, I think that the participation ratio in Pattern and
IMAC might just be roughly the same.  As far as the 2002 Nats' goes, Ron
might have hit on it.  The airplanes that participated were markedly
quieter than those of a couple of years ago.
Nats attendance has been around 40-44 until Enid, Ok, which saw an
upsurge.  The first year IMAC was in Muncie, it was ~ 40 contestants.
Last year saw, I believe, about 70 flyers.

Bill Glaze

ronlock wrote:

> Some of the reason for lower IMAC attendance last summer may havebeen
> the enforcement of a noise rule for IMAC birds. Ron Lockhart
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Buddy Brammer
>      To: discussion at nsrca.org
>      Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:35 PM
>      Subject: RE: Weight Limit
>       Tom / Bill
>
>      IMAC attendance was also down at the NAT's last year.
>      Compared to pattern they had far less participation on a
>      percentage basis of overall membership than pattern.
>
>      Might be that many IMAC mambers don't compete in contest's?
>
>      Buddy
>       >From: "Thomas C. Weedon"
>      >Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>      >To:
>      >Subject: RE: Weight Limit
>      >Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:42:19 -0500
>      >
>      >Bill,
>      >The latest that I have heard is that they have experienced
>      some drop outs
>      >after the orginal excitment a few years ago which leaves
>      them around 800
>      >members. The IMAC contests up here have been down on
>      attendance over this
>      >last year. Tom Wheeler told me that they were tight on
>      money and could not
>      >afford to publish a magazine without a loss. That's why
>      they were pushing
>      >their on-line issue. Now that they have joined with RC
>      Excellance magazine,
>      >their publishing problems my go away. Just my observations.
>      I still want to
>      >fly IMAC when I have the time. I have 2 good planes (only
>      80"w.s. though)
>      >Tom W.
>      >FREE*
>
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