[NSRCA-discussion] Roaming Nats.

Thu Apr 26 08:51:57 AKDT 2007

The reason its held in Muncie is.. the space is available, for sure, every 
year.

In the 60's and early 70's we had the "Navy NATS" .  The US Navy provided 
space at one of thier installations for the AMA to hold the event.  The NATS 
grew... and got to be too much of a burden on the Naval installations.

Thats part of why the AMA BOUGHT the land near Muncie... partly to have a 
guaranteed available space for the NATS rather than having to hunt for and 
probably RENT space to hold the event.

Try to find a place to hold just the Pattern portion of the NATS...  Your 
options will be very limited.

No matter where you move the NATS you'll find that you move it further from 
someone and the added distance keeps them from attending, thus they'll 
complain.  There is no way you'll find a location that will please everyone. 
Muncie works at least as well as anywhere else.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Hewitt" <phewitt at farmersagent.com>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:35 AM
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Roaming Nats.

>I know there must be a good reason that the Nats are always held in Muncy 
>but
> WHY. If nothing else take it on the road every other year.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pat Hewitt
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: 11:01 AM CDT, 04/26/2007
> From: "Tony Stillman" <tony at radiosouthrc.com>
> To: "'NSRCA Mailing List'" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rule 8.1.1
>
> This is an interesting discussion.  I am currently the Chairman of the 
> NATS
> review committee, as established by AMA President Dave Brown.  We are
> currently reviewing all aspects of the NATS, as well as looking to what
> changes need to be made to ensure that the future of the NATS is 
> preserved.
> Lots of ideas have been floated, and I'm sure changes will be made.  While
> at the Ocala contest, I asked for input from any of the pilots there as to
> what they thought about the NATS.  Didn't get the first bit of info from
> anyone. maybe just too busy to talk..
>
>
>
> The rules that govern what events are flown at the NATS are pretty much
> influenced by rules proposals and what the SIGS want done.  The NSRCA 
> pretty
> much runs the NATS.  If the NSRCA wants to include Sportsman, they can
> probably do that.  The idea about that class was that it is an entry level
> class, and many pilots would move up before getting to the end of the
> season.  That is not usually the case in the rest of the classes.
>
>
>
> How about the idea of making the NATS into an event you have to qualify 
> for?
> Take figure skating for example.  You can't just walk up to the US 
> National
> Figure Skating Championships and plop down your skates and some money and
> compete.. You have to QUALIFY!  That means you compete locally and
> regionally to get the points to qualify to compete in the Championships. 
> It
> would sure make everyone that wanted to go to the NATS work a little 
> harder
> to attend local and regional events, that's for sure!  We could also do 
> the
> contest is a shorter amount of time, because we would probably limit the
> contestants to around 15-20 per class.
>
>
>
> Now don't get all worried that this is gonna happen, it is just one way of
> looking at how a NATS MIGHT be run..
>
>
>
> Tony Stillman, President
>
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>
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> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of
> Rcmaster199 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:09 AM
> To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rule 8.1.1
>
>
>
> This is a beef to be taken up with the AMA Contest Board and mostly with 
> AMA
> Nats Management. Airing your laundry on this list does no good to anybody
> and appears to be aggravating you.
>
>
>
> For the record, AMA is not excluding YOU. You may fly as you wish but you
> would have to fly at a higher level. If you can't fly at the higher level,
> you may want to reconsider what you wish for. For that matter, there are 
> no
> other qualifications I know of in any other event flown at the National
> Championship. You may pay your entry fee and enter any other event as 
> well.
> Point is AMA is not excluding YOU, so don't take it personally.
>
>
>
> THE National Championship has its set of rules that we all have to abide 
> by.
> As the old saying goes, "You can please some people most of the time....."
> In this case, the Nats rules ".....please most people most of the 
> time...."
>
>
>
> MattK
>
>
>
> In a message dated 4/26/2007 6:37:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> shineyobject at gmail.com writes:
>
> Keith - I'm so chilled you'd think I was a watermelon on ice, but I hope 
> my
> point is not lost amid my sarcasm. It simply isn't right to exclude equal
> paying, equal participating members from any activity sponsored by AMA.
>
>
>
>
>
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