[NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010

[Del K. Rykert]

Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010Hi Ken...
    I also feel as you do but, for all my years of  belonging to the NSRCA and my attempts to make others aware of the dangers of just plowing ahead with business as usual, mostly falls on deaf ears. Contests have shrunk. Attendance has shrunk. The choice of continuing when the lower classes should be getting the attention,  casual fliers need to be encouraged - not discouraged to participate, then the trend will not change as far as I've been seeing.  Many "Hot shot" local fliers get a real awakening when they attend the Nat's and discover they haven't mastered the sequence as well as they thought they had.
 
    Del
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Thompson 
  To: NSRCA Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010


  Personally I don't get bored with a sequence until I think I've perfected it.  Once I get that feeling, it get's quickly erased as soon as I fly in front of the judges.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: John Ferrell 
    To: NSRCA Mailing List 
    Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:15 PM
    Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010


    I (and others I think) got pretty bored with practicing the same old stuff. While I took a break I developed enough minor health problems to keep me side lined indefinitely. Others found other things to do. D2 attendance is now below critical mass. 

    If the choice is to hurry to Masters or quit playing then I suppose I need to just do the best I can with Masters and let it go at that!

    It really doesn't matter, the rules are made by individuals who have the political clout not the governing committees. Whoever controls the agenda has veto power and anonymity. 

    John Ferrell    W8CCW
    "Life is easier if you learn to plow 
           around the stumps"
    http://DixieNC.US

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Mark Atwood 
      To: NSRCA Mailing List 
      Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:45 AM
      Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed Masters Sequence for 2009/2010


      Hear hear.

      I'm not generally a proponent of changing the lower classes all the time (the intent is that they not be destination classes...I also know the reality of that so please, no hate mail) But I'm a HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of being ABLE to change them every year...i.e. Removing the patterns from the AMA rulebook and allowing the Sig to post the schedules that will be in effect in a given year.

      I think you'll find ALL of the contest board members would vote "Yea" for that if they ever got the chance to...

      The advantages are so many I can't even begin to list them.

      -M


      On 7/26/07 8:37 AM, "John Ferrell" <johnferrell at earthlink.net> wrote:


        Are you certain that you really can change the schedule without waiting out the rules cycle?

        The lower classes had to endure 6 years of the same schedule because the Contest Board refused to act on anything other than emergency proposals in the interim. Many of the Advanced flyers elected just to stand down. 

        You have just pointed to advantage the IMAC discipline has over Pattern with AMA...

        I hope you can pull it off because the existing conditions are detrimental to the game.

        John Ferrell    W8CCW
        "Life is easier if you learn to plow 
               around the stumps"
        http://DixieNC.US


          ----- Original Message ----- 
           
          From:  Derek  Koopowitz <mailto:derekkoopowitz at gmail.com>  
           
          To: 'NSRCA Mailing List' <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>  
           
          Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:26  PM
           
          Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Proposed  Masters Sequence for 2009/2010
           

           

          Over the past couple of months we (the NSRCA board)  have received a number of comments about the Masters sequence that was  selected in 2005.  We heard that the sequence had too many snaps,  turnaround maneuvers did not allow positioning of the plane (in or out) after  the 5th maneuver, and that the difficulty level from Advanced to Masters was  further increased.  There was also an error in the schedule in that one  would come out of the Double Immelman (#10) inverted and head into the Humpty  Bump (pull-push-pull) and head into the ground based on the description.   The Masters schedule was published in the July 2005 issue of the K-Factor  (Option A on page 25) - in  lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion



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