[NSRCA-discussion] One day contests

Fri Sep 29 04:02:31 AKDT 2006

The obvious answer is to only attend one day of a two day event. At the end of the first day, you pretty much know how your going to stack up against the competition. Which is the main reason I fly. For family reasons, I only attend on saturday. 

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From: Chris Moon <cjm767driver at hotmail.com> 
One day contests really require a large number of potential flyers within a reasonably short driving distance.  I think that they were more popular years ago when there were more people in pattern.  In the 80's on the East coast there were lots of flyers and several one day contests.  Today, we have people driving 400 -500 miles to a 2 day contest and that would not be good for a one day event.  However if you had enough local people to make up for the loss of the long distance drivers maybe it would work.  I just don't know of too many areas that have enough people local to make up an event and not have to rely on long distance drivers to guarantee a good contest with lots of competition.
I would like some one day contests too, but not if I am only flying against 1 or 2 other guys.

Chris

Kurt Bozarth wrote: 
I had this exact conversation today at my local field.  Two-day contests
seem to appeal to the die hard who don't mind traveling.  One-day contests
appeal to the local guys who are "on the fence" or have other time demands
on the weekends (like me).  I would love a one day event with 5 rounds.  

Kurt Bozarth

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Adrien L
Terrenoire
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] One day contests

I am sure that there have been a couple times when a Sportsman pilot was
not able to stay for both days, but I can't remember any specifically. We
have been offering this for a number of years now, and to the best of my
memory, everyone has stayed for both days.

Terry T.

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:30:20 -0400 "Anthony Romano"
<anthonyr105 at hotmail.com> writes:

For a one day event to be appealing it has to be within a reasonable 
driving 
distance. That reduces your pilot pool to those within a two or 
three hour 
radius, excepting of course the truly dedicated. For some areas that 
isn't a 
factor but for the rest of country that is little help.
Sayre has always done two one day events for sportsman and from the 
few I 
have been to the numbers rarely varied much over the consecutive 
days. I am 
sure Terry can elaborate on this.
Other than the quantity of food and displacing the home club it is 
really 
not any more work to do a two day event.

Anthony

From: Adrien L Terrenoire <amad2terry at juno.com>
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] OK it's time to stir 
thingsup.        Where'sthebeef?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:40:21 -0400

Kelly:
We have all ben there, done that. For a small percentage, a 1 day 

contest

is a good idea. The real problem is weather. I hate to take the 

risk of

traveling x miles for a 1 day contest that mey be rained out. At 

least

with a 2 day you double the odds that you will get at least 1 day 

to fly.

The solution for you is to make it a family thing. Get a tent, pop 

up

camper, or hard top, whatever suites your budget, and take the 

family

with you. Mom can kabitz with the other moms and grandmoms. The 

kids can

run free, and will find others to run with, and when not flying, 

judging,

or calling, you can still spend some quality time with all family
members. We really do have a great time camping at most of the 

contest

sites.

Terry T.

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:59:24 -0400 Kelly Regan 

<kelly.regan2 at verizon.net>

writes:

Just an observation from some one that has not flown in a
patter competition yet...

The idea of a 2 day contest is a big commitment for me.
We have 3 children under 5 years old and my wife is a stay
at home mom. The only break she gets is on the weekends
when I am around to help.

I have a hard time asking her to watch the kids all weekend
while I go fly and babysitters can be hit and miss.

A one day contest would be wonderful for someone in my
situation, however I have no idea if this would work or draw
more contestants?

george w. kennie wrote:

<<<<Has anyone got any stats on the effectivity of the 

pattern

primers? I know of some new guys who've come into it this

way.>>>>

Just by way of encouragement to those who may feel some degree 

of

frustration at their lack of results in trying to entice the 

local

genre to give pattern a try. In my local area, there are 

several

clubs

that I hold memberships in and these people have watched me 

fly

sequence upon sequence for about the last eight years.Some of

these

individuals display some degree of interest/desire while 

others

view

my efforts with outright disdain.
My feeling is that there is not a heck of a lot you can do on 

and

individual basis to induce someone to apply themselves to the

pursuit

of our passion.There has to already be some 

competitive/challenge

aspect to their basic personality that makes them want to 

conquer

the

unknown difficulty eating away at the root of their psyche and 

if

it

just happens to be pattern that fires up their competitive 

drive

at

that particular time we may have discovered a possible

conscription.
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