[SPAM] Re: Re: Take Off & Landing "Reality of a Contest"

[Scott Anderson]

Hey Marguerite,

Pack up the limo and trailer and come on down to Knoxville TN, next weekend for the KCRC pattern meet!!!
Maybe you can  drag some of the rest of the NJ crew down with you...

I sure do miss those days of programming your new radio right before the contest..LOL..

Scott Anderson

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MargueriteVG at aol.com 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:48 PM
  Subject: Fwd: [SPAM] Re: Re: Take Off & Landing "Reality of a Contest"



  Ed Alt
  Hi Ed
  I have to agree with one of your statements and that is we should score Landings and take offs.IN BOTH groups for sure. 

  PATTERN EVENT   I was   Almost  hit  by  a run away plane  while  at  full speed landing  (masters or advanced pilot!!)

    I came very close to a sever injury at last years pattern event. Scott A pulled me to safety as I was in the midst of my sequence.  A pilot while attempting to land flew his  plane 
  directly at me on the pilots station. the plane out of control came at me.IT

  STILL tapped my foot. This was at FULL THROTTLE on landing a pattern plane as I stood two stations away flying.
  Somehow I managed to finish up. I was shaken for quite awhile

  This pilot was in the higher class it could have been masters. Something went wrong somewhere! 


  He did apologize these things happen but this was at a pattern event. I have not had that problem at IMAC.

   IMAC has its fair share of EXCELLENT experience top gun pilots and it has its fair share of beginners, IMAC has many moving on in groups just as pattern has from beginner to the next.   Pattern could learn from IMAC just as well as IMAC  can  learn from the  pattern group.
    

  IMAC and Pattern should score landings. There should be just as much focus on landing as any other flying maneuver. Just as much practice dedicated to a perfect landing (safety and precision)

  You have been at a lot of IMAC events but pattern has a fair share of problems. Did you ever watch beginners with a speeding pattern plane land at a pattern event. 

  I have seen beginners in both. In defense of IMAC    I have only had that bad experience with the pattern event and as I said it wasn't even with a beginner.

  Both groups are working to improve all situations and we are lucky to have the intelligent support that we have.

  IF we include scores for landings and take off I am sure that will improve the safety factor for all of us flying.

  TIME to get the Sequal out to fly.
  see you all at the flying field

  See you all at the flying fields.
  Marguerite Gargiulo


  In a message dated 5/23/2005 7:23:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, ed_alt at hotmail.com writes:

    Actually, there is a legion of IMAC pilots who can't takeoff or land without 
    threatening the safety of of others, mainly the guys at the other 
    pilot/judging station.  I have regularly seen close calls and dangerous 
    displays of model operation at IMAC contests during TO/landing.  
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