Team Trials

[Dean Pappas]

Hi George,
That was a real part of my non-argument with Bob H. (remember he's one of us)
An Academy is supposed to be a place dedicated to education and excellence.
Wanna fix it? Then we need to educate.
Write a good technical article, submit it to any mag, aim it at the ARFer, and uplift him just one little bit.
Teach him a tiny little something at the field (without his figuring out that he's being
dragged out of the great big "lowest common denominator".
The only difference between what I just said, and the world-view that I (and many of you) 
held up until a short while ago, is that the AMA and the house organ isn't doing it for us.
They won't hinder us either! Any magazine will gratefully accept good technical stuff,
especially if it is written so as to connect with the majority.
You know, there are less widely read magazines that eschew the lowest common denominator!
I'll stop there before being accused of a sales pitch.

Less bewildered and more resolved,
Dean


-----Original Message-----
From: GeorgeF. [mailto:av8tor at flash.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:13 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Team Trials



>Hi Tony, Hi All,
>
>Tony, when you said that, "AMA didn't even think it important enough to 
>cover in Model Aviation...", something inside me twinged. So I called dear 
>friend Bob Hunt(the editor at MA) and asked him if there was to be even 
>cursory coverage. Realize that the man I'm talking to is a World Champion 
>in Control-Line Aerobatics, and still a competitor ... His voice saddened 
>and he told me that the policy at MA is that no team trials are covered, 
>lest they all have to be covered. Every time something about competition 
>is covered, droves of readers write in to complain. After every December 
>issue (the NATs coverage issue) they are barraged with complaints about 
>the the waste of magazine space. World championships might get coverage, 
>if they happen in the U.S.! The mediocre have censored coverage of 
>excellence. Don't hassle Bob, he is one of us!
>
>O.K., for homework, everyone go (re)read Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".
>
>Bewildered,
>     Dean Pappas


Isn't part of the AMA's mission to promote all forms of Model 
Aviation?  Isn't competition part of Model Aviation?   Seems like by not 
covering competition you're not promoting and advancement of model 
aviation.  In this case everyone looses from the hard core competitor to 
the sport flier and the park fliers.....

George


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