AMA Magazine Article - the paragraph

[Mike Hester]

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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