New Nats Calendar (2005)

[Adam Glatt]

Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:

> I asked a friend about the plans to re-schedule nats.
>
> His reply is below.
>
>                             Marty #2874
>
>     Yes, the AMA Nets will be cut back from 6 weeks to 4 weeks 
> beginning in
> 2005. The problem is more one of not enough weekends to accommodate 
> all of
> the requests we have to use the NFS as opposed to "too much time taken 
> away
> from tourist pilots". We get several requests each year from 
> organizations
> to use the NFS that are denied because there are just no open 
> weekends. The
> schedule is booked every single weekend during the flying season.
>
>     I know the Nats Committee is concerned over this but this is what 
> I see.
> There are several events run at the Nats that draw only a handful of
> competitors. And when I say handful I'm talking, in some cases, less 
> than a
> half dozen entrants.  These events schedule one of the flying sites on 
> the
> complex for several days, but in reality are only flying for a few hours
> each day. The rest of the day the site sits unused. By consolidating 
> some of
> these events to take full advantage of the facility we should easily 
> be able
> to shorten the time frame of the Nats by two weeks but still run the same
> number of events, with the same number of participants, getting the same
> number of flights. Nothing should change except to make the site 
> available
> to additional flying events. BTW, we also opened two additional 
> control line
> circles this year and this needs to be factored into the equation.
>
>     I think the Nats Committee will need to put some effort into 
> coming up with
> a workable schedule, but it's not undoable by a long shot. I asked Dave
> Brown about the 200 emails. He says "maybe, over the years, he might have
> received a couple hundred emails from members complaining about the 
> lack of
> access to the site when events are being run. But these complaints 
> were not
> only directed at the Nats, but all of the events that are scheduled at 
> the
> NFS.
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Sounds like the pattern guys have been model participants.

Get it? ;>

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