Why quit pattern.

[Del K. Rykert]

Been stating this for years and been shouted down by the load majority
because they felt ti was stagnating the classes no offering more frequent
change.  Can't have it both ways guys & gals.

                  del
               NSRCA - 473

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gundling" <DGundling at compuserve.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: RE: Why quit pattern.


Message text written by INTERNET:discussion at nsrca.org
>4. Time. Interestingly enough it was not building time but flying time.
They
could not dedicate the practice time to handle new routines or do well with
existing ones. Not happy with their performance because of lack of
practice.<

Eric,

I'll second the motion on this one. Was retired a while back and counted up
450 patterns flown in a year. Now I'm working again and am lucky to get 45
patterns in a year. Then I look at the stats posted recently here of people
using 45 and 65 gallons of fuel in 6 months. Let's see 16 oz a flight, 8
flights a gallon., somewhere between 340 and 520 flights with usually 2
patterns per flight. I should compete against this? BTW, flying field is 45
miles away. Lack of time is a real killer.

Dave

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