Bigger issues--Long as usual from me

[John Ferrell]

RE:
> The first contests with the current rules changes were in 2002 yet 8months
> later the changes for the next cycle were due.....How can this be
evaluated
> properly...I submit that it can't be properly evaluated. I know the NSRCA
> needs to be involved in the rules process.

I do not propose anarchy, but I do think we need to do a reality check on
the subject. I know that IMAC is a dirty word here but when it comes to
competition they are leading the way. While we are looking at lead times in
the area of many years, they are making box dimension adjustments in real
time. They tweak and try changes and the world does not end.

The AMA relationship to competition is changing from promotion of
competition to tolerating it. They are about one step away from forbidding
it. I cannot understand the reluctance of NSRCA to declare independence in
the same manner as the IMAC folks.

Both organizations are recognizing that the high dollar airplanes are
driving the membership numbers at the moment. It is a real problem. If and
when the IMAC starts promoting a set of classes limited to 80 inch
airplanes, pattern as we know it will be threatened. The real problem is
that it will take this discipline five years or more to respond to the "IMAC
Competition"!

Will Rogers said: "You have a choice. You can either deal with things as
they are or you can deal with things as they are not"!

John Ferrell
6241 Phillippi Rd
Julian NC 27283
Phone: (336)685-9606
johnferrell at earthlink.net
Dixie Competition Products
NSRCA 479 AMA 4190  W8CCW
"My Competition is Not My Enemy"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Troy Newman" <troy_newman at msn.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: Bigger issues--Long as usual from me


> I'm not condemning your actions or the actions of anyone else....Rather
I'm
> saying the current process is poor.
>
> Its long and drawn out...I also know that the process caught us off guard
> this past cycle. There were so many huge changes the time before...We were
> still waiting for them to take effect. By the time the next cycle came up
it
> seems like there is a very short time to evaluate the changes made the
> previous cycle...as in less than a single seasons flying and yet the CB
and
> the AMA process takes 2+ years to do its work....
>
> The first contests with the current rules changes were in 2002 yet 8months
> later the changes for the next cycle were due.....How can this be
evaluated
> properly...I submit that it can't be properly evaluated. I know the NSRCA
> needs to be involved in the rules process.
>
> Just think we could do something better that's all.
>
> TN
>


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