Pattern/Scale event combo

[Ed White]

The then McDonnell Douglas RC Club (today the Phantom Flyers RC Club) held a combined pattern/scale contest in metro St. Louis.  There was scale competition as late as 1989 but it was dropped in 1990 or shortly thereafter, primarily due to lack of entries in the scale contest.  The concern at the time was that the scale people didn't really like playing second fiddle to pattern.  But several pattern contestants brought and entered scale planes.  At some point expanding entries in the pattern contest would have made it difficult to get all six rounds in and finish up early enough on Sunday for people to get on the road, but we never really had a big problem with that.  Not really sure how much it added to spectators but for whatever reason, we had more spectators then than we get now.
 
This year will be our 47th Annual Fall Pattern Contest (August 28-29 hint-hint).  Feel free to bring a scale plane and we'll properly admire it and twist your arm to fly it Saturday evening.
 
Ed White
Phantom Flyers RC 47th Annual Fall Pattern Contest CD
http://phantomflyersrc.com

ronlock at comcast.net wrote:
In the St Louis vicinity, in 1980s, it was common to have 
a two day pattern/scale event. The small number of Scale
entries usually got two rounds on Sunday morning. As Anthony
notes, it was secondary to pattern, but added spectator appeal.

Ron Lockhart


>From: Anthony Abdullah [ Save address ] 
To: discussion at nsrca.org 
Subject: AA / Scale event combo 
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:08:33 -0800 (PST) 
If memory serves me correctly, there was a pattern competition about ten or fifteen years ago in Belpre WV (D4) that was a combination of pattern and scale run as two seperate events. Pattern was the main event with scale run as kind of an undertone. The scale planes on display attracted spectator attention while we flew patttern. Later in the day the required scale manuevers were flown. I remember because I was flying pattern at the time with a ST bull ring 46 powered Mutchlers Cessna 177 that I also entered in scale. As I recall the contest was pretty successful. Greg Poppel and some other very friendly pattern flyers fixed my YS 45 at the competition and I was forever hooked!<
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