[NSRCA-discussion] IMAC Vs PatternParticipation?Does the DogHunt on points made?

[Ron Van Putte]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:45 PM, David Lockhart wrote:

> RVP,
>
> Does that mean all two-plankers are pattern pilots??  Or just me??

Definitely not.  You've got to understand that not all Pattern pilots  
like snow.  I love snow: on TV, in movies and on postcards.

Ron Van Putte

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Van Putte
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> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] IMAC Vs PatternParticipation?Does  
> the DogHunt on points made?
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Ed Alt wrote:
>
>> Several sites formerly used for SA contests have been lost here in  
>> the NE due to noise  / neighbor complaints during contests. I  
>> heard that another contest went away due to liability concerns  
>> after a severe injury involving a contestant and his own airplane,  
>> then there's another which very sadly is going away because of  
>> real estate development (PGRC field).  There's a lot of history at  
>> that field.  Anyway, the noise footprint concern is huge.  We had  
>> a request for our club to host a 2nd SA contest this year because  
>> of the loss of so many other sites.  We turned it down in part  
>> because of the fact that the noise rules are now ignored, the box  
>> boundaries went away and the sequences are insane, making the  
>> noise footprint problem worse than it's ever been. Even as wide  
>> open as we think our contest field is, we've had complaints and we  
>> didn't want to increase the exposure and risk.  They better figure  
>> out what is plainly obvious to at least some of us, because the  
>> current profile of the event is fairly obnoxious to alot of  
>> people.  The hovering next to the pits also has the club member  
>> volunteers pretty darned annoyed and with them as well as being  
>> concerned with liability, but the attitude by some is that it's  
>> their right - to paraphrase - "it's IMAC, it's what we do".
>
> IMACers, the snowboarders of R/C aerobatics.  <VBG>
>
> BTW, I have some history with the PGRC field; I was a member back  
> in 1969 to 1972 and flew at "the Pea Patch" across from Silver  
> Hill, the old Croom airport and the Bowie flying fields.
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
>
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