Rule Change Proposal

[John Ferrell]

This one of the many rules that need immediate change. We seem to be stuck 
somewhere in the 1980 time frame and are refusing to accept that years of 
experience and changing conditions just might yield  a better competition 
environment.

A good part of the problem is the matter of the rules cycle itself. As many 
of us get to the age where we put a lot of thought into buying green bananas 
it becomes less important what anyone has planned four years out!

The rules need a full rewrite to reflect how things are, not how they used 
to be. The rewrite should embrace the advantages of current technology and 
put aside the artificial limitations of days past.

As it is we are really only addressing urgent/emergency proposals.

Most people bail out of the stock market before the value falls 50%. Our 
membership has dropped 50% in the last few years. By all indicators I trust, 
our ship is on the rocks. The rules we play by are the keel of that ship. If 
we wait until it is trashed beyond repair, the ship is lost. Of course, 
there will still be a few of us around treading water trying to refloat the 
remains.

I believe that if Precision Aerobatics is going to survive it is essential 
that it be "re-invented" from the roots up. I think the planning horizon of 
both the AMA and the NSRCA are too short and self serving to allow that to 
happen.

Nobody with a Medicare card in their pocket should be laying down the long 
range foundation.

The last general overhaul was Turnaround. It is time again.


John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Van Putte" <vanputte at cox.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:29 PM
Subject: Rule Change Proposal


> I'd like to float a rule change proposal for consideration and discussion.
>
> After recently attending a contest in which landing downwind was very 
> difficult and dangerous, I thought there should be a rule change regarding 
> the landing direction.  Off the top of my head, I'd say something like, 
> "In case of a wind shift during the flight and to reduce the hazard to 
> people and the aircraft, subject to the approval of the judges, the 
> landing direction is the pilot's option."
>
> Comments?
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
> =================================================
> To access the email archives for this list, go to
> http://lists.f3a.us/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/
> To be removed from this list, go to http://www.nsrca.org/discussionA.htm
> and follow the instructions.
>
> List members email returned for mailbox full will be removed from the 
> list.
>
> 


=================================================
To access the email archives for this list, go to
http://lists.f3a.us/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/
To be removed from this list, go to http://www.nsrca.org/discussionA.htm
and follow the instructions.

List members email returned for mailbox full will be removed from the list.