FAI F3AL---Pattern IMAC combined

[Gray E Fowler]

Geeze Jon ...please lighten up! I think what you are reading is what you 
want to read. It is real easy to take all this the wrong way if you want 
to. The people on this list are not what you think. Did you not stop and 
talk to anyone while you where at the Nats?

I know this post is in vain, and I really am trying to igonore you in 
particular, but concerning your last statements, you are just plain wrong. 
I hope you have the chance to find out for yourself.
Why don't you go to the next contest and ask ANYONE in Intermediate or 
above for help-on any subject. I do not know where you are but I will be 
in Lubbock this weekend....You can see my semi-straight lines that earned 
me 22nd place in Advanced this year at the Nats...yeah thats right 22 
outta 26! Im am so elite! Those 4 guys below me regret the day I showed 
up. Now...do you think I am serious? I promise I am done!

Gray Fowler
Principal Chemical Engineer
Composites Engineering




Jon Uhler <juhler at bellsouth.net>
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>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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