FAI F3AL---Pattern IMAC combined

[Jon Uhler]

>I've yet to see an IMAC'er have a good landing

Wow, now IMAC'ers (I am assuming you are not limiting your bias to just IMAC'ers, cause really, how can you tell us apart? so you must mean scale aerobatic plane flyers) can't land or fly straight lines.  I wonder why we even bother to get our planes out of the car. 

I am truly amazed that you guys, sorry, we are still discussing why pattern can't attract new blood.  Look back over some of the messages that you seasoned pattern pilots have made during this discussion.  The answers are all right there.

>From what I am reading, you guys really don't want new blood in the sport, because that brings new ideas in, brings in unworthy club schmoes, brings in the IMAC'ers, and brings in rookies that you don't want to deal with.

I think what you really want, is a system to weed out the cream of the crop so they can learn the secret handshake and become one of the SKILLED.  

The problem is, we all have to start some place.  Not a single guy on this list started out as a Advance winning NATS pilot.  It is so funny how when people make it to the top, they forget how they got there.

Pattern is an old AMA tradition that is still living by old tradition values and goals.  I've been flying since 78 and still remember looking at the pattern planes and pilots in the AMA magazine, hoping to achieve that level of skill some day.  Planes have changed and so have the names.....time for an attitude change I think.

Jon 


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