Bigger issues--Long as usual from me

[Tony Stillman]

John:

IMAC is not out of the control of AMA.  They are a SIG, just like us.
However, they put in an annex maneuver system from the start, so they could
change schedules as they wanted.  We received quite a bit more trouble from
the Contest Board when we wanted to install an Annex.  It has not been
approved yet, but I think it will pass this time.

We can get things passed as emergency rule changes, should that need to
happen.  Otherwise, we are in the control of AMA, who sets the rules.

Yes, it is a very slow system, but unless we completely break away from AMA,
we will have to work to change what we have now.  Most people flying pattern
now have NO IDEA how much work it was to put on N-PAC's!

Tony Stillman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ferrell" <johnferrell at earthlink.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Bigger issues--Long as usual from me


> 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
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> "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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