AMA rules-what are we doing?

[MILLER, EDWARD, MGSVC]

IMHO, pattern is not in a decline. NSRCA membership and contest attendance may be in a slight decline. I know I'm going to catch some flack for this but, to the pattern enamored "John Doe" or "silent majority" , the KFactor is a big part of the NSRCA, maybe bigger than many at the top are willing to accept. Getting the KFactor back on track along with a few tweaks in the NSRCA most likely will help boost NSRCA membership. Contest participation comes and goes, there are far too many variables in play to try and point to specific items that need to be "fixed" to increase contest participation.  
Ed M.

-----Original Message-----
From: GeorgeF. [mailto:av8tor at flash.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:22 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: AMA rules-what are we doing?


At 11:01 AM 11/19/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Tom.
>
>     Great to hear that things are on the upswing for you and your district.
>Maybe Canada doesn't count for you but the contests I used to attend are
>down by three by my last count. Attendance at this years contest was down
>except for Ken Kehners contests in Glen,NY. I can't speak for the rest of
>the district as I haven't made the long drive. At todoays cost of
>competitive aircraft when you lose one due to a midair it takes people out
>of competition sometimes for the major part of the year. As you know we had
>more than our share this last year and that contributed to some loss in
>attendance. That to some degree will be back next year. Also hopefully Elba
>will be able to pull off a contest again in 2003. Have to wait and see as we
>are struggling with field issues. I haven't heard if the cancelled Canadian
>contests are going to be back in 2003 or not.
>
>     To claim that things are going well when the facts show to the contrary
>isn't healthy either IMHO.
>
>      Del K. Rykert
>      AMA - 8928
>      NSRCA - 473
>      Kb2joi - General


I have to agree with Del on this one.  When I was heavy into pattern 
1989-1991 I was doing 13 contests per year, all within a 150 mile or less 
radius (D1).   Then it seemed that the number of contest started a rapid 
decline and never bounced back.

Now that I live in D3 I was trying to plot how many contest were in a 200 
mile radius this year and could only come up with 2 (Ocala, FL & 
Jacksonville, FL).  I've considered moving to the Virginia Beach area (D2), 
is pattern on the UpSwing there?  I guess I just live in the wrong area of 
Florida.

George


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