Landings and Take-off's - The vote!.:

[Ron Van Putte]

On Nov 13, 2003, at 4:24 PM, Keith Black wrote:

> I would hope that the contest board members are privy to all the facts 
> so
> they can make the best decisions. For example, if 80% of the NSRCA 
> members
> vote against eliminating scored takeoff and landings, and we DON'T 
> include
> it on our rules change proposal to the AMA, but an individual submits 
> their
> own proposal for this change and gets a few friends to email the 
> contest
> board I'd hope they would be aware that 80% of the NSRCA are against 
> it. If
> they only knew about the one guy that submitted it and his friends 
> emails
> then they my unwittingly vote for something that 80% of the NSRCA are
> against.
>
> Seems to me that the best way for the NSRCA to serve it's membership 
> is to
> have an NSRCA poll of all private proposals not included on the NSRCA 
> rule
> change proposal. This poll would be taken after the deadline to submit
> proposals to the AMA, but before the contest board meets to vote on the
> proposals. The results of this poll would then be given to the contest 
> board
> so they would know the NSRCA's opinion on all proposals, regardless of
> originator.
>
> Therefore, if I submitted a rule to drop half point scoring and I got
> everyone in my flying club (sport fliers included) to send the contest 
> board
> emails demanding this, then the NSRCA membership wouldn't get blind 
> sided by
> this proposal. I know we can all do this individually if we make the 
> effort
> to look up the proposals and send emails to our district rep., but it 
> would
> be much more effective as a group and the participation would be 
> greater
> than just expecting everyone to research and email on their own.
>
> I guess you could call this the NSRCA "watch dog" approach.
>
>

The NSRCA 'watch dog" approach sounds great, BUT NSRCA officials don't 
get any more information about individual rule change proposals than 
anyone else.  NSRCA officials do what is possible and practical, but 
the fact is that AMA does not make it easy to find out what is actually 
in the rule change proposals.  It is only through the efforts of some 
individuals to do things like making the complete text of all rule 
change proposals public, like Tony Stillman did recently, that anyone 
besides the individual, AMA and the contest board really know what's in 
a proposal.  Don't think of NSRCA officials as people who know 
everything, but more your flying buddy, who doesn't know any more about 
the details than you do.  We are all in this together and we need to 
keep everyone informed as best we can.

Ron Van Putte

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