[NSRCA-discussion] One day contests

[Mike Wizynajtys]

That seems reasonable. What if the only day you can attend is the 
second day? Do contests allow that? I could have done that once this 
past summer, when a tight work deadline messed up my plans.

Wiz

At 08:03 AM 9/29/2006, you wrote:
>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.
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>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 
>a! gainst 1 or 2 other guys.
>>>
>>>Chris
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