AMA Magazine Article - the paragraph

[Tony Stillman]

Well stated, Mike!  It is ALL our responsibility, that's for sure!

Being USA Team Manager three times has exposed me to many people (many that
did not make the team!) with huge egos that won't talk to the rest of us.
Not good for pattern  or model airplanes of any type!


Tony Stillman
Radio South, Inc.
3702 N. Pace Blvd.
Pensacola, Fl 32505
www.radiosouthrc.com
800-962-7802
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hester" <kerlock at attbi.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: AMA Magazine Article - the paragraph


> I can answer that one for D3.
>
> As a relative newcomer, I can say with no reservations that from the very
> first contest, I have been treated with the utmost respect and comraderie.
> Everyone, including veteran master and FAI pilots, took time to help me
and
> make me feel at home. I didn't even have to ask, they just stepped over
and
> made sure I was having fun and learning every flight.
>
> I've been to almost all of the D3 contests this year, (8), and all of the
> people I met were great folks. Not a single jerk, that I can remember.
>
> I think it's each competitior's obligation to help the new guys, even if
> they're the competition. I try and make sure they aren't standing there
> wondering what to do, and I try and give as much advice as they want. Even
> if they didn't bring a plane and are just curious.
>
> The face of the NSRCA begins and ends with each and every one of us. We
> should all take personal responsibility to make sure new pilots enjoy
> themselves enough to come back again and again. I have to wonder the full
> story behind that guy's comments if he felt so excluded at a pattern
> contest. I'd bet he wasn't in D3 lately.
>
> -Mike Hester
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henderson,Eric" <eric.henderson at gartner.com>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:01 AM
> Subject: RE: AMA Magazine Article - the paragraph
>
>
> > The question still stands. Are we that bad now or have we got better?
> >
> > The answer determines your next personal action.
> >
> > I'll tell you now that I have found IMAC contests to be less tense and
the
> > folks tended to be more gregarious. The only grief I have had from IMAC
is
> > over the noise level proposals that my wife signed.
> >
> > I will say that I could print anti-IMAC letters etc in my column, but so
> far
> > I have not had any!!!
> >
> >
> >
> > E.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin X. Moleski, SJ [mailto:moleski at canisius.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:54 PM
> > To: discussion at nsrca.org
> > Subject: Re: AMA Magazine Article - the paragraph
> >
> >
> > --On Monday, September 30, 2002 5:26 PM -0500 Larry Diamond
> > <jed241 at email.msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The problem isn't that it was published. The problem is that it ever
> > > happened in the first place. You can't stop all of it.
> >
> > It's not an either/or situation.
> >
> > Yes, the allegation, if true, indicates that some of us
> > may not be too hospitable to a newcomer during a contest.
> >
> > The publication of the allegation as a generalization is
> > stereotyping.  It is an offense in its own right.
> > "Pattern guys--self-centered and inhospitable; IMAC
> > guys--good."
> >
> > In the 1980s, I rode my bike onto an RC field in
> > the vicinity of D.C.  The guys cussed at me in no
> > uncertain terms for endangering myself.  They
> > were surly and rude.  They answered my questions
> > about the hobby in monosyllables, if at all.
> >
> > I made two decisions that day.  One was to get into
> > the hobby when I finished my Ph.D.  The other was
> > to greet newcomers with an extended hand and a smile.
> > I've kept both resolutions.
> >
> > Marty
> >
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